An engaged man, like a hungry man, is an irascible man. And How often a fiancée is sore put to it, not only to satisfy him, but to pacify him!
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A woman will often blandly ask why the two rivals to her hand should not be friends! Yet it is significant of much that she does her utmost to keep them apart! Indeed,
In no instance are a woman's tact and finesse so exercised as in playing off one man against another.—And yet usually she delights in the task; for
Being-made-love-to is to women what killing—whether of men or of animals—is to men. In a word,
To be sought after is to woman what war or the chase is to man.
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The woman a woman accepts a man, then and there he becomes her lord and master. And this she unconsciously knows—nay, expects. If the man does not then and there exercise his lordship and show his mastery, he will find it difficult to do it later on. But of course
No woman will ever be got to admit that her newly-won man is her master.
Nevertheless it is counsel that every man should lay to heart, for
Unless a woman is dominated (N.E. not dominated over), she tries to get the upper hand. And