"Her errors spring almost always from her faith in the
good or her confidence in the true" declares Balzac. "She has more
strength in her looks than we have in our laws, and more power by her
tears than we have by our arguments," says the Duke of Halifax, a great
statesman. "All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of
woman," says Voltaire, skeptic in all else. "Women in their nature are
much more gay and joyous than men," writes Addison, "whether it be that
their blood is more refined, their fibers more delicate, and their
animal spirits more light and volatile; or whether, as some have
imagined, there may not be a kind of
SEX IN THE VERY SOUL,
I shall not pretend to determine." "It is not strange to me" says Boyle,
a good, sensible man, "that persons of the fairer sex should like, in
all things about them, that handsomeness for which they find themselves
most liked." Man reviles woman for her vanity. At the same time it is
the particular delight of the man who will himself wear no decoration to
load upon his willing wife the trinkets of his fancy as far as his purse
will pay for them.
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