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OST women, and men too, have no character at all. Just opinions and virtuous paions appear by tarts, and while we are giving way to the love and admiration which thoe qualities raie, they are quite different creatures. It is reflection which forms habits, and fixes principles indelibly on the heart; without it, the mind is like a wreck drifted about by every quall. The paion that we think mot of will oon rival all the ret; it is then in our power, this way, to trengthen our good