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undutiful daughter, an implaeable mistress, a harsh mother, and a sauey servant.
Pride is the parent of iniquity, the inventor of viee, the seed of rebellion, and the rise of faetion.
Pride lost mankind their paradise, the world its peaee, and made a devil of an angel.
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CHAP. VI.
OF THE INGRATITUDE OF WOMEN.
Let no man deeeive himself with the expectation of gratitude in a mereenary woman; for she who for silks or satins, or a splendid maintenanee, will submit to your pleasure, and swear constaney to her keeper, shall be the first that forsakes you in a deelining condition; and though she hath built a provision for herself out of the ruins of your fortune, yet she shall be the last person that shall lend you the least assistanee when your oeeasions shall the most require it. Therefore, look upon whatever you give to such a woman to be buried as a deep sea, from whence no returns ean be expeeted.
If you love a woman, be not deluded by her trifling presents to make ehargeable returns; for that is the aim of her poliey. Let not a point eravat, because it is her own working, give her title to the settlement out of your estate; lest
