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on the sly, the wife of one of the most celebrated
physicians in Paris, not later than to-day she
showed me his last prescription to ask me if it
would do her any good.”
“You are always having women around you.
I wish women would like me as much as they
seem to like you, even my old cook is in love
with you since you cured her of shingles.”
“I wish to goodness they did not like me, I
would gladly hand over all these neurotic females
to you. I know that I owe them to a
considerable extent my reputation as a so-called
fashionable doctor, but let me tell you they are a great
nuisance, often even a danger. You say you
want women to like you, well don’t tell them
so, don’t make too much of them, don’t let them
order you about as they please. Women, though
they do not seem to know it themselves, like far
better to obey than to be obeyed. They pretend
to be our equals, but they know jolly well
themselves that they are not—luckily for them, for
if they were our equals we should like them far
less. I think on the whole much better of women
than of men, but I do not tell it to them. They
have far more courage, they face disease and
death much better than we do, they have more
pity and less vanity. Their instinct is on the
whole a safer guide through their life than our
intelligence, they do not make fools of
themselves as often as we do. Love means to a woman
far more than it means to a man, it means
everything. It is less a question of senses than man
generally understands. A woman can fall in love
with an ugly man, even an old man if he rouses
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