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 Pride in a witty woman is like a whetstone to a scythcscythe [sic], it only scrvesserves [sic] to sharpen her refleetionsreflections [sic], and makes her a most dangerous weapon for a man to meddle with.

A proud woman like a stately horse, is to be rid with a crub, and managed with the rein, or she will soon be the bane of the rider.

If you marry a haughty woman you ought to havchave [sic] a good estate, for you will find a proud wife, in a low situation, will be an uneomfortableuncomfortable [sic] companion, and the first in adversity that shall lcndlend [sic] a helping hand to your ruin.

Pride in a friend is dangerous, in a mistress chargeable, but in a wife an intolerable torment.

Many womcnwomen [sic] have virtue enough to resist the bare attempts of familiarity; but few that can stand against the powerful eharmscharms [sic] of gold, fine dress, eoaehcoach [sic] and horses, and attendance. It is grandeur influences pride, and leads ambition by the nose through the worst of vieesvices [sic]: for there are many who are honestly poor by constraint, that would willingly eommitcommit [sic] an cvilevil [sic] to be rich.

Many women have forfeited their virtucvirtue [sic] to gratify their lust, but more to maintain their pride and lust, though it will make a woman a whore, yet it is pride makes her merecnarymercenary [sic].

That virtue is never safe which is under the guardianship of pride; the latter will be