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Love.
ſentment; we ſhould then habitually practiſe forbearance, and the many petty diſputes which interrupt domeſtic peace would be avoided. A woman cannot reaſonably be unhappy, if ſhe is attached to a man of ſenſe and goodneſs, though he may not be all ſhe could wiſh.
I am very far from thinking love irreſiſtible, and not to be conquered. "If weak women go aſtray," it is they, and not the ſtars, that are to be blamed. A reſolute endeavour will almoſt always overcome difficulties. I knew a woman very early in life warmly attached to an agreeable man,
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