Samuel Richardson - Women Quotes

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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

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Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

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Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.

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And I believe that anatomists allow that women have more watery heads than men.

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