The greater a man’s faith in himself, the greater his mistress hers in

him.  And perhaps, the greater his mistress her faith in a man, the

greater his in himself.  For

A woman’s faith in a man works wonders.

 

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A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love.  Yet,

It is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.

 

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Many men forget the artistic tendency of the feminine temperament, a

tendency which shows itself in many ways—their love of pretty things,

of pretty ways, and of pretty words.  From which three alone we may

deduce the rule that

When with the woman he admires and whose admiration he seeks, a man cannot be too careful of his dress, his speech, and his manners.

 

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A believer in Woman is a believer in Good.  And vice versa, and mutatis mutandis.

 

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Man’s standard of value of a woman is usually determined by the scale of

his own emotions.  That is to say,

The pedestal upon which a man places a woman (a man always puts a woman

upon a pedestal) is a pedestal erected solely by the effect upon himself of her charms.

 

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A man may boast himself invincible by men; never by woman.

 

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The lady-killer is always an object of attraction to ladies, even to those whom he makes no attempt to slay.

 

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It may perhaps be a thing as unreasonable as certainly it is indisputable, that however much wild oats a man may himself sow, he invariably entertains a very peculiar objection to any woman near or dear to him entering upon this particular branch of agriculture.