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[19] who seldom reason or act consistently; their best resolutions being swayed by their inordinate passions, which their reason is to weak to keep under constant control. Even the so-called
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,--of which type Catherine the Second was a prominent representative--was in his eyes only another proof of this statement; for at bottom all women are Machiavelians and they cannot do anything with moderation, sentiment always getting the better of reason[20]. They do not appreciate or even understand the language of common sense, and the proper tone to be adopted in their presence is
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He who flatters them most pleases them best; and they are most in love with him who they think is the most in love with them [22]. They value their beauty--real or imaginary--above everything, and in this respect
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As women are a considerable, or at least a pretty numerous part of company; and as their suffrages go a long way towards establishing a man's character in the fashionable part of the world (which is of great importance to the fortune and figure he proposes to make in it), it is necessary _to please_ them . The sole use of women in Chesterfield's eyes is that they may be turned into a ladder for social advancement: