Women like best to be liked: to lead gives them but paltry and temporary
pleasure. (Though this they do not always instinctively know; or, if
they do, they conceal their knowledge.) And
Variability is incompatible with leadership.
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How delicately a loving woman reproves! How defiantly an unloving!
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How many lonely women--married and unmarried--the world contains, only
these lonely women know.
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