“Beautiful thoughts, and beautiful women never last.”
Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“Few women's merit lasts as long as their beauty.”
Il y a peu de femmes dont le mérite dure plus que la beauté.
Maxim 474.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
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French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680Related quotes
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