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The man who suffers himself to be deceived and carried away by his own weakness may be a very amiable persons in other respects, but cannot be called a good man; such beings should not find favor in the eyes of a woman, for a truly beautiful and feminine nature should be attracted only by what is highest and noblest in the character of man. Humboldt.

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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. Bacon.

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I have found very fashionable girls capable of large sacrifices for love, or kindred, or obedience to some divine voice. This proves that they have only to be taught that there is something better than being very fashionable, to take it thankfully. Mrs. L. G. Calhoun.

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Woman, so often deficient in physical, oftenest excels man in moral, courage. -Victor Hugo.

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In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token that they would never again be needed. In ancient Rome, it was a queen's epitaph, "She stayed at home, and spun."Higginson.

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Alas, how love can trifle with itself! - Shakespeare.

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It is a mistake to consider marriage merely a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature. - Chapin.

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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one we love. - Mme. de Staël.

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O woman, in ordinary cases so mere a mortal, how, in the great and rare events of life, dost thou swell into the angel! - Bulwer-Lytton.

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Women see without looking; their husbands often look without seeing.-Louis Desnoyers.

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Love is undoubtedly to the emotional world what sunshine is to the natural world, its vitalizing influence. But it is to be guided, controlled, directed to the proper objects, and may be cultivated in the right direction. Mrs. J. C. Croly.

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Juliet was a fool to kill herself, for in three months she'd have married again, and been glad to be quit of Romeo. Charles Buxton.

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There are woman so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them, and hence it comes that they often encounter devils. -Marguerite de Valois.

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Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers, but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it. — Bovée.

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Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter easily produce vanity; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure, and dress. On the contrary, other excellences, which lie down like gold and are discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud. - Richter.

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Her tears her only eloquence. - Rogers.

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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. George Eliot.

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning. A. Dupuy.

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Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage road in the fairest face. Rochefoucauld.

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A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love. - Bruyère.

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Ladies of fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Colton.

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A woman loses in love what she may gain in rank who tops her husband's place. - Beaconsfield.

Love will not brook any division of its empire in the heart of the beloved. - Dumas fils.

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To love one that is great is almost to be great one's self. Mme. Necker.

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Were she perfect one would admire her more, but love her less. Grattan.

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Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire. Chesterfield.

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As beauty of body, with an agreeable carriage, pleases the eye, and that pleasure consists in that we observe all the parts with a certain elegance are proportioned to each other, so does decency of behavior which appears in our lives obtain the approbation of all with whom we converse, from the order, consistency, and moderation of our words and actions. - Steele.

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Women commiserate the brave, and men the beautiful. - Landor.

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Beauty is only skin deep,”. - a text out of the devil's Bible. No Baal or Astarte is the maker of beauty, but the same who made the seven stars and Orion, and his works are past finding out. If only the woman herself and her worshipers knew how deep it is! But the woman's share in her own beauty may be infinitely less than skin deep; and there is but one greater fool than the man that worships that beauty, - the woman who prides herself upon it, as if she were the fashioner and not the thing fashioned. George Macdonald.

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To love her [Lady Elizabeth Hastings] was a liberal education. - Steele.

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Nature, when she amused herself by giving stiff manners to old maids, put virtue in a very bad light. A woman must have been a mother to preserve, under the chilling influences of time, that grace of manner and sweetness of temper which prompts us to say, "One sees that love has dwelt there." — Lemontey.

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Remember Talleyrand's advice: "If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't!" The advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter-writing. Bulwer-Lytton.

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One must have constant charge of children and youth if he hopes to mould their minds and manners into the image of beauty and loveliness; and mothers have this happiness beyond all others. To preserve their innocency of heart and fancy inviolate, to quicken the sense of right, steadfastness to conscience, this is the happy office of mothers. — Alcott.

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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress. - Richter.

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In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. - Lamb.

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Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace, or their father and mother. George Eliot.

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Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool!- Chapin.

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A woman may be ugly, ill-shaped, wicked, ignorant, silly, and stupid, but hardly ever ridiculous.. -Louis Des

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