A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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  2. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. - Oscar Wilde

  3. Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time. - Mario Puzo

  4. If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. - Arthur Golden

  5. It's hard to love a woman and do anything. - Leo Tolstoy

More Quotes By Nathaniel Hawthorne
  1. Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

  2. Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

  3. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  4. Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

  5. Death should take me while I am in the mood.

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