exquisite that

It is with difficulty that a woman refrains from exhibiting a man's
servitude to others. On the other hand,

There is an element of intimidation in a resplendent woman. And of this
she is aware.--Hence perhaps her power.

* * *

A woman will attain her ends by adroit finesse, where a man would blunder
into open hostility. And

It is well that man should blind his eyes to feminine wiles, since,

Always a woman kindly pretends oblivion of masculine blunders.

* * *

The woman whose tastes and refinements are above her station, is
in pitiable plight: she is too fastidious to espouse the men who would
marry her; the men she would marry she rarely meets. For,
The only thing that, to love, is insupportable is vulgarity. Since

Love, romantic love, the efflorescence and bloom of life, is besmirched
unless tenderly touched.

* * *

To generalize passes the wit of woman; but in penetration she is