Simulation is difficult to the eye.

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When the idol into which a woman has converted her lover is dethroned,
she still worships her remembrance of her god, and puts together and
treasures the broken pieces.

When the idol into which has converted his loved one is dethroned, he
generally changes his creed.

* * *

A circumpsecting lover is a woman's abhorrence: as a calculating
mistress is a man's.

* * *

Let a lover but put himself into the hands of his mistress, and he is
safe. Since

The man she really loves, a woman will shield through thick and thin,
through right and wrong. For,

Concerning a man, the only question a woman asks is, not, "Is he right or
wrong?" but, "Is he mine or another's?"--We men therefore

Leave a woman to get her lover out of a scrape.