Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
• Chapter VI: The Battle Commences
• Chapter VI: The Battle Commences
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Les femmes jouent avec leur beauté comme les enfants avec leur couteau. Elles s’y blessent.
— Women on Les Misérables
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Les femmes jouent avec leur beauté comme les enfants avec leur couteau. Elles s’y blessent." in the context of "Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
• Chapter VI: The Battle Commences" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Les Misérables" (Volume Four: ST. DENIS: Full title: Saint Denis and Idyl of the Rue Plumet, Book III - The House in the Rue Plumet)
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About Women
Women are adult human females. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl.
About Women
Women are adult human females. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl.
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