an go about in all freedom and security without running the risk
of being followed and otherwise annoyed by idle men, and that is Fifth
Avenue, New York.

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In matrimony, to retain happiness and make it last to the end, it is
not a question for a woman to remain beautiful, it is a question for
her to remain interesting. Not the slightest detail should be beneath
her notice in order to keep alive the attention of her husband.

* * * * *

Love feeds on illusions, lives on trifles. If a man loves his wife, a
rose on her head, her hair parted the other way, a newly-trimmed
bonnet, may revive in him the interest he felt the first time he met
her, nay, the emotion he felt the first time he held her in his arms.
The very best dishes may become insipid if served with the eternally
same sauce.

* * * * *

There comes a time when a woman has to make up her mind to choose
between being called a 'dear old soul' or a 'crabby old thing.'

* * * * *

I love and admire the woman of forty who admits that she is ten years
older than her daughter, the woman of fifty who is proud to show me her
grandchildren, and does not object to being photographed with them, and
the woman of sixty who does not expect me to admire her shoulders at a
dinner-party.

* * * * *

Painting, music, and women are often admired or criticised by plucky
people who are not afraid of exhibiting their ignorance.

* * * * *

Women are born mothers or sweethearts. When they marry, they become
mother-wives and take their children into first consideration, or
sweetheart-wives, and bestow their best care and attentions on their
husbands. But for the former ones, many clubs would have to put up
their shutters.

* * * * *

A woman who is constantly blushing must be terribly well informed.

* * * * *

As long as it is man who proposes, matrimony will be promotion for a
woman.

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The woman taken in adultery was formerly burned or stoned to death;
later on she was condemned to three months' imprisonment. Nowadays she
goes scot-free, and her husband is turned into ridicule. Wha