One of those unselfish creatures found only among women- who will for pure love and admiration, bind themselves willing slaves, to youth when they have lost it, to beauty that they never had, to accomplishments that they never were fortunate to gain, to bright hopes that never shone upon their own somber lives.
The Tale of Two Cities
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“Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.”
No fight could have been half so terrible as their dance. It was so emphatically a fallen sport- a something, once innocent, delivered over to all devilry- a healthy post time changed into a means of angering the blood, bewildering the senses, and stealing the heart. Such grace as was visible in it, made it uglier, showing how warped and perverted all things good by nature were become.