Woman's summum bonum is the almost equally incompatible combination of a
well-regulated family and the height of fashionable gaiety.

Man's infinum malum is domestic distraction.
Woman's infinum malum is social exile.

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Between man and man, to lay another under pecuniary obligation is to
jeopardize friendship. Between man and woman, a like cause brings about
an opposite result.

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The man with something of the feminine about him often knows better than
his more masculine rivals how to work upon feminine susceptibilities.

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Most women know how much to leave to a man's imagination.--But then,
man has not much imagination. Besides,

Man's imagination is always highly complimentary to woman.

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Affinity covereth a multitude of sins.

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