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Solomon has objurgated the invincibly garrulous woman. The invincibly taciturn woman is so rare as to have escaped objurgation. Yet she too is a terror to men.
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Every woman is suspicious and jealous of any woman that opens a man's eyes; even though she knows that
Never was there a woman who could and would deliberately wholly enlighten a man.
And, yet, marvelous and curious amongst things curious and marvelous, will but a woman fling artifice to the winds, and look and act and say as great Nature prompts,—wildly, willfully, wantonly,—that woman will captivate as no feminine wiles will ever captivate.
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If the man were worth it, many a woman would dispense with the marriage ceremony. For
Ah! Love—love—love,—given love, what else is needed? (Unfortunately
Love can never be sure of itself—much less of anything else.
Accordingly