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A woman’s answer to an insuperable argument is:  a look.  And a most cogent answer it is.  Indeed,

Speech is a woman’s least effective weapon; rarely if ever does she resort to it: 

In the affairs of life, as in the affairs of love, where men be concerned, it is upon her personality that she relies, not upon her speech whether written or uttered.

Her personal appearance is to a woman, what his personal honor is to a man:  it must be immaculate; constant with the fashion of the hour; and strictly in accordance with her or his status in society.  Accordingly,

Dress and demeanor—­these form the code of feminine ethics.  Even

Deception on the part of a woman is merely diplomacy;

Women deceive only be cause man is too blind to see.  That is to say,

Since man in past ages has never allowed woman either freedom of action or frankness of speech, it is not to be expected of her that she should be all at once an adept in their use.—­To her credit be it said that,

Generally a woman deceives only n order to arouse or to retain the admiration of man.  For example,

Many a woman has surreptitiously made love to the man—­and few are the men who have detected it.

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Why this woman fascinates all who come within the sphere of their influence, and that women, does not, no earthly sage will ever know.  As well ask what makes one man a Napoleon, another a poltroon.  So, too,

It is impossible for a woman to say ‘I will be loved,’ as it is for a man to say ’I will be obeyed.’—­Perhaps

Love and Power are divine miracles.

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(At the risk of treading on delicate ground, ground off which I shall be hooted by the modern woman, I venture to say that)

The idea that a woman is the property of the man of her choice, rail as it as the woman may, has not yet been ousted from the feminine mind—­and heart.  Indeed,

So firmly implanted in the feminine breast is the idea of the ownership of her by the man, that it is to the man who assumes and exercises ownership that she clings.  This is why

A woman easily changes her allegiance; since,

Allegiance, to a woman, means loyalty to the man who assumes and exercises ownership over her: 

Let a man who a fractional part of a second evince the shadow of a doubt of his proprietorship—­at once he undermines a woman’s allegiance.  Consequently,

It is folly for men to express amazement at the ease with which a woman will transfer herself and her affections.

A woman will transfer herself bodily over and over again, but only because the previous owner lightly esteemed, or weakly maintained, his ownership.  As a matter of fact