What a man doesn't know about a girl would fill a Saratoga trunk; what her does know about her would go into her work-box.
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The littlest girl is a little women. No boy knows this—and precious few grown up men. Thus
Many a grown up man plays with a girl, then finds himself in love with her. As to the girl—-
Always the girl knows whether the play is leading: she probably chooses the game.
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Very late in life does a man learn the truth (and significance) of that ancient proverb that Kissing goes by Favour. For
The masculine mind is the slave of Law and Justice:
Aphrodite never heard of Law or Justice: she was born at sea. That is to say,
Few are the men who at some time in their lives have not wondered at the vagaries of girlish complaisance: the foolish, the ne'er-do-well, the bully, the careless, the cruel,—it is to these often that a girls' caress is given. And,