Womanliness is the supreme attraction, in however fair or however frail a personality it is embodied.  And

The sacred function of all womanhood is to kindle in man the divine spark by means 30 of the mystic flame that burns ever in the vestal breast.

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Every true woman’s orbit is determined by two forces:  Love and Duty.  Which is another way of saying that

Women, like the lark, are true to the kindred points of heaven and home.  But,

It is only when the two foci are coincident and identical that her orbit becomes the perfect circle and her home becomes her heaven.

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A woman’s heart is an unfathomable ocean:  nothing ever filled it; no one ever plumbed it.  At the surface are glancing waves, or flying spume, or, it may be, raging billows; beneath are silent depths invisible to man.  A thousand streams flow into it in vain.  Towards varying coast-lines it bears itself variously; here, placid and content; there, dashing furious.  But none ever stamped his marked upon its brim, and always it remains the refluent, reluctant sea.  Of it man knows only the waves that break or ripple at his feet.  It betrays no 31 secrets; it asks not to be understood.  Storm and calm but stir or still its surface, and what things it hides forever engulfed no one may learn.  Subtle, yet mighty; an eternal, and entrancing, mystery to man.

A man’s heart is the enclosing shore; measurable, impressionable, definite, and overt; thinking to house that sea, shaping it, over looking it, and staying and governing its tides.  Yet changed by it, crumbling before it, yielding to it:  at once its guardian and its slave.  Yet perhaps

The placidest of seas is that which is wholly land-locked.

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Women, apparently, were made for men; men for themselves.  Certainly

Men seem to carry out this design of Nature, that they should be ministered to by women.

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A woman asks a woman questions in order to discover something.  She asks a man questions in order to discover the man.

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he last thing that a woman will risk is her personal appearance.  Which is saying a good deal, for

A woman will risk an interview at an unseasonable hour, but not in an unseasonable frock.

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Never, never take a woman au pied de la letter.

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Women’s rights are:  to be loved.

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Women’s duties are:  to love.

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There is always something sovereign and monarchial about a woman:  like a queen’s, her wishes are her commands.  And

In matrimony, woman’s sovereignty is not abdicated.  By no means; it is only transformed from an absolute into a constitutional monarch :  she acts then by and with the advice of her First Lord.  This is the ideal State.

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