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A circumpsecting lover is a woman's abhorrence: as a calculating mistress is a man's.
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Let a lover but put himself into the hands of his mistress, and he is safe. Since
The man she really loves, a woman will shield through thick and thin, through right and wrong. For,
Concerning a man, the only question a woman asks is, not, "Is he right or wrong?" but, "Is he mine or another's?"—We men therefore
Leave a woman to get her lover out of a scrape.
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It is to be feared that the men and women who love but once and forever are not usually to be found outside of romances.
With women, love is a river, ever-flowing, from the brook in girlhood, (4) to the estuary of womanhood. Like a river, too,