Gelett Burgess - Woman Quotes

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Men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

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Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.

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Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from the hands of strange women, she will expose their craft; and of her who flattereth thee, will she make known the reason.

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A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

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A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

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Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

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Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

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Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

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A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

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As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

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