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 in your absence; for opportunity and importunity may conquer the most heroieheroic [sic] virtue.

Carry no man to your mistress if you prize her; for if she loves you, she will be eivilcivil [sic] to your friend for your sake.

It is the polieypolicy [sic] of a designing woman to oblige the friend of him that loves her. To aequaintacquaint [sic] herself by that means with his affairs that she may manage him the better.

Most women are of eoldcold [sic] eonstitutionsconstitutions [sic], and under the dominion of them; and remember it as an approved maxim, that all sublunary things are subject to mutation.

ConstaneyConstancy [sic] is a great virtue, and its opposite is a dangerous vieevice [sic]; whoever negleetsneglects [sic] the former to praetisepractise [sic] the latter, is neither to be loved nor trusted.

It is good to be wise, it is wisdom to be just. and just to be eonstantconstant [sic].

love of woman is easy to be gained, but diffieultdifficult [sic] to be preserved. You may with more ease subdue virtue, and bring a ehastechaste [sic] woman to your embraeesembraces [sic], than engage her to be eonstantconstant [sic].

It is a reeeivedreceived [sic] opinion among their sex that the passion of love eeasesceases [sic] in a man after