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A conditional surrender is no surrender. But
A woman's surrender is in reality a desertion, a going over to the enemy.
Thenceforward she is an ally. Indeed
A woman's capitulation is her conquest.
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Let no amount of simulated austerity deter you. The marble Galatea came to life at the prayer of a man.
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The number of modes in which a woman can say 'Yes' has not, up to the present, be accurately enumerated; but perhaps the one most frequently in use is the negative imperative. And
Many are the men who have puzzled long and painfully over the motives of a woman's 'No.' Yet in nine cases out of ten a woman says 'No' merely because she feels herself on the brink of saying 'Yes'. In other words,
It is often mistrust of herself that leads many a woman to refuse it will the lips the consent that is fluttering at her heart. Perhaps that is why