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Show Feminine Fancies. - Victor Hugo: Women are afflicted by trifles, but they are also consoled by trifles. Douglas Jerrold : The language of women should be luminous, - but not voluminous. Higginson : An ounce of mother, says the Spanish proverb, is worth a pound of clergy. Socrates: frust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will. Lord Langdale: If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into tho other, the whole world would kick the beam. Thomas Fuller: . They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter. George Eliot : A fine lady is a squirrel-headed squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions ; about as applicable to the. business busi-ness of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest. Leigh Hunt : Little eyes must be good tempered, or they are ruined. . The' have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and should do their duty. Colton : There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed ; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary extraordi-nary animals, and are more worthy of a glass case when they die than half the exotics in the British museum. James Parton: .To a man who is un-corrupt un-corrupt and properly constituted, woman remains always something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself her-self in novel bindings. Heinrich Heine : Cleopatia is a real woman she loves and deceives at the same time. It is an error to suppose that when women deceive us they have therefore there-fore ceased to love us. They are only following in their native instinct, and even when they have no wish to drain a forbidden cup, they like to sip a little at the rim, just to try how poison tastes. Holmes : We must have a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much. People that t;o not laugh or cry, or take more of anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary words, are admirable subjects for biographies. But we don't always care most for : those flat pattern flowers that press best in tho herbarium. |