With woman 'Yea' and 'Nay' are meaningless and interchangeable terms.
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'Ware a show of excessive feeling. It is proof, either that it is shallow and evanescent, or that it is put on. At all events Excessive feeling is rarely taken seriously. Now
Seriousness adds a spice to gallantry. But, like spice, a little is ample.
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Many men think it is the woman who has to be persuaded. It is not the woman; it is her scruples. Besides, "Nemo repente turpissimus—vel turpissima". Yet
By thirty, scruples are either dormant or dominant.
Both of the callow youth of fifteen and the man of the world of forty-five swear by the woman of thirty.
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It may seem a paradox, but it is a truism, that, in matters of love, it is the weaker and the defenseless sex that takes the initiative. In other words,