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Pride in a witty woman is like a whetstone to a scythc, it only scrves to sharpen her refleetions, 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 havc a good estate, for you will find a proud wife, in a low situation, will be an uneomfortable companion, and the first in adversity that shall lcnd a helping hand to your ruin.
Pride in a friend is dangerous, in a mistress chargeable, but in a wife an intolerable torment.
Many womcn have virtue enough to resist the bare attempts of familiarity; but few that can stand against the powerful eharms of gold, fine dress, eoaeh and horses, and attendance. It is grandeur influences pride, and leads ambition by the nose through the worst of viees: for there are many who are honestly poor by constraint, that would willingly eommit an cvil to be rich.
Many women have forfeited their virtuc 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 merecnary.
That virtue is never safe which is under the guardianship of pride; the latter will be
