The ordinary male man revolves unusually about two foci:  his Appetites; and his Ambitions.—­Which is the major and which the minor . . . .  However,

You may trust women to know when he is in peri-and when in aphelion.

Many a spouse has no difficulty in explaining away to her lord actions about the character of which even his initiate friends have no shadow of doubt.  For

A woman’s perception is preternatural.  But no; it is natural enough, since

From the days of the first woman to the days of the New one, love, its wiles and its whims, has been the serious business of woman.

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Women know much better than men that stolen bread is sweetest.  In consequence,

Men steal almost everything they get from women.—­At least they think they do.  Which is the same thing.

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If the sexes were to change places, more marriage licenses would be taken out.

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‘Frailty,’ says man, ’thy name is woman,’—­and then he takes advantage of it.

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At arm’s length it is difficult to offer a helping hand.  Yet it is hazardous to reduce that distance.

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Neglect is the unpardonable sin in a woman’s eyes.  Woe to the man who is guilty of it.

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If a woman possessed only a man’s tact, what fallings-out there would be!

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Man’s summum bonum is to combine a comfortable home with congenial club.

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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To attract sometimes requires temporary repulsion.  But

Some women miscalculate their satellite’s orbit.  With the result that either it rushes on to certain destruction, or it passes beyond the limits of gravitation.

The woman who to one man is no more than the sub-stratum of frock and bonnet, is to another man the centre of gravity of the created cosmos.

When she is such centre to more than one man, her horoscope is difficult to cast.

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When one heart lays siege to another , both sides throw up entrenchments; and this even when both belligerents are ready to negotiate for surrender.  But,