If a woman possessed only a man's tact, what fallings-out there would be!
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Man's summum bonum is to combine a comfortable home with congenial club.
Woman's summum bonum is the almost equally incompatible combination of a well-regulated family and the height of fashionable gaiety.
Man's infinum malum is domestic distraction.
Woman's infinum malum is social exile.
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Between man and man, to lay another under pecuniary obligation is to jeopardize friendship. Between man and woman, a like cause brings about an opposite result.
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The man with something of the feminine about him often knows better than his more masculine rivals how to work upon feminine susceptibilities.
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