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Show WHAT WITS HAVE SAID ABOUT WOMEN Would you hurt a woman most, aim J at her affections. Wallace. The more idle a woman's hand tho more occupied her heart. Dubay. Lot woman stand upon her female character as upon a foundation. Lamb. . Women cannot see so far as men can. but what they do see they see quicker. Buckle. If men knew all that women think they would be twenty times more audacious. au-dacious. Karr. A woman's hopes are woven as sunbeams: sun-beams: a shadow annihilates them. George Eliot. Beauty is worse than wine it intoxicates in-toxicates both the holder and the beholder. be-holder. Zimmerman. Neither walls, nor goods, nor anything any-thing is more difficult to be guarded than woman. Alexis. We onlv demand that a woman should be womanly. That is hot being exclusive. Hunt. Modesty in a woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it. Lingree. Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their own weakness. Mme. Du Deffand. It is no more possible to do without a wife than it is to dispense with eating eat-ing and drinking. LUther. When joyous, a woman's license is not to be endured: when in terror, she is a plague. Aeschylus. If woman did turn man out of paradise, para-dise, she has done her best ever since to make it up to him. Sheldon. Men always say more evil of a wo-, man than there really is; and there is always more than is known. Mezeray. Lovers have in their language an infinite in-finite number of words in which each syllable is a caress. Rochefedre. A heart which has been domesticated by matrimony and maternity is as tranquil as a tame bullfinch. Holmes. A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good woman pleases the heart; one is a Jewel, the other a treasure Napoleon Na-poleon I. A man cannot possess anything that Is better than a good woman, nor anything any-thing that is worse than a bad one Simon Si-mon Ides. How wisely it is constituted that tender and gentle woman shall be our earliest guides, instilling their own spirits. Channing. It i3 generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden hid-den under the "dear deceit" of beauty. George Eliot. To educate a man is to form an individual who leaves nothing behind him; to educate a woman ds to form future generations. Lauolaye. It is not easy to be a widow. One must resume all the modesty of girlhood girl-hood without being allowed even to feign Ignorance. Mme. de Girardin. Beloved darlings, who cover over. and shadow many malicious purposes with a counterfeit passion of dissimulate sorrow and unquietness. Sir Walter Raleigh. What Is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so short duration? It is the interests of love and tlie jealousy of conquest. Rousseau. To give you nothing and to make you expect everything; to dawdle on the threshhold of love while the doors are closed this is all the science of a coquette. T. Bernard. Women have a perpetual envy of our vices; they are less vicious than we, not from choice, but because we restrict re-strict them: they are the slaves of order or-der and fashion. Johnson. I am a strenuous advocate for liberty and property; but when these rights are invaded by a pretty woman, I am neither able to defend my money nor my freedom. Junius. Women speak easily of platonic love; but, w hile they a ppear to esteem it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilet that does not drireplaton-ism drireplaton-ism from our hearts. Ricara. |