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A believer in Woman is a believer in Good. And vice versa, and mutatis mutandis.
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Man's standard of value of a woman is usually determined by the scale of his own emotions. That is to say,
The pedestal upon which a man places a woman (a man always puts a woman upon a pedestal) is a pedestal erected solely by the effect upon himself of her charms.
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A man may boast himself invincible by men; never by woman.
* * * The lady-killer is always an object of attraction to ladies, even to those whom he makes no attempt to slay.
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It may perhaps be a thing as unreasonable as certainly it is indisputable, that however much wild oats a man may himself sow, he invariably entertains a very peculiar objection to any woman near or dear to him entering upon this particular branch of agriculture.