NOTABLE THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN.

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If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the condition of its women. — Aimé Martin.

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Delicacy in woman is strength. - Lichtenberg.

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God intended for woman two provisions against sin, modesty and remorse. In confession to a mortal priest the former is removed; by his absolution, the latter is taken away. Miranda of Piedmont.

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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. Shakespeare.

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All amusements of youth to which virtuous women are not admitted are, rely on it, deleterious in their nature. All men who avoid female society have dull perceptions and are stupid, or have gross tastes and revolt against what is pure. Thackeray.

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All women are, in some degree, poets in imagination, angels in heart, and diplomatists in mind. Emanuel Gonzales.

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Worshiped while blooming, when she fades forgot. Moore.

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Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. Wieland.

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Women will find their place, and it will neither be t which they have held, nor that to which some of them pire. Nature's old Salic law will not be repealed, and change of dynasty will be effected. - Huxley.

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A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman i Saadi.

treasure.

II

A woman's whole life is a history of the affectio The heart is her world: it is there her ambition stri for empire; it is there her ambition seeks for hidd treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adv ture; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of af tion; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for bankruptcy of the heart. Washington Irving.

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Purity of heart is the noblest inheritance, and love fairest ornament, of woman. - Matthias Claudius.

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A jest that makes a virtuous woman only smile of frightens away a prude; but, when real danger forces former to flee, the latter does not hesitate to advance

Laténa.

14

Who has not experienced how, on nearer acquaintan

plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its cha according to the quality of the heart and mind?-1

drika Bremer.

15

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.- Sha

speare.

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The concealment of art by the actress is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.- François Delsarte.

Marriage is a lottery, in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

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Mme: de Rieux.

American women with money are at a premium in fashionable Europe. Even without this supreme merit, they are favorites. The versatility of mind and ease of manner which a free and social life develops appear in strong contrast with the results of the more formal education, which are often seen in the opposite extremes of timidity and assurance. Julia Ward Howe.

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Caprice is in woman the antidote to beauty. - Bruyère.

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She hath a natural, wise sincerity, a simple truthfulness, and these have lent her a dignity as moveless as the centre. Lowell.

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I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall, occasionally, be visited on their children, as well as the sins of fathers. Dickens.

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Sing of the nature of woman, and the song shall be surely full of variety, old crotchets, and most sweet closes; it shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one. — Beaumont.

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Coquetry is the desire of inspiring love without experiencing it ourselves. Mme. de Brade.