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ABOUT

WOMEN

A LITERARY MOSAIC

BY

MATURIN M. BALLOU

Shepherd. Thanks, gentle Echo! right thy answers tell
What woman is, and how to guard her well.
Echo. Guard her well.

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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

NEW YORK: II EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1882

808.9
3190

Copyright, 1882,

BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

Some readers delight in abstracts and epitomes. - JOHNSON.

We have been at a great feast of languages, and have stolen all the scraps.-SHAKESPEARE.

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones. - ABBE TRUBLET.

Under the veil of these curious sentences are hid those germs of morals which the masters of philosophy have afterwards developed into so many volumes. — PLUTARCH.

If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy. — JEREMY TAYLOR.

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