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Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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amHonrd Sir your grateful Grand Daughter Eliza P. Custis. To this letter General Washington repliedin the following remarkable and most admi-rable letter, in which he treats of the subjectsof love and matrimony : ceptible, that must have generated much warmerideas, although the fruition of them may apparentlybe more distant than those of your sister. Having (by way of a hint) delivered a sentimentto Patty which may be useful (if it be rememberedafter the change that it is contemplated is consum-mated) I will suggest another more applicable toyourself. Do not then in your contemplation of the mar-riage state look for perfect felicity, before you con-sent to wed; nor conceive, from the fine tales ofthe Poets, and lovers of old of the transports ofmutual love, that heaven has taken its abode onearth ; —nor do not deceive yourself in supposingthat the only means by which these are to be ob-tained, is to drink deep of the cup, and revel in anocean of love. 24 SOME NEW WASHINGTON RELICS.
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ELIZA PARKE CUSTIS. (FROM MISS PEALEs I Love is a mighty pretty thing, but like all otherdelicious things, it is cloying ; and when the firsttransport of the passion begins to subside, which itassuredly will do, and yield — oftentimes too late—to more sober reflections, it serves to evince, thatlove is too dainty a food to live upon alone, andought not to be considered further than as a neces-sary ingredient for that matrimonial happiness whichresults from a combination of causes ; none of whichare of greater importance than that the object onwhom it is placed should possess good sense,—good dispositions,— and the means of supportingyou in the way you have been brought up, and who,at the same time, has a claim to the respect of thecircle in which he moves. Such qualifications cannot fail to attract (aftermarriage) your esteem and regard — into which orinto disgust, sooner or later, love naturally resolvesitself.—Without these, whatever may be your firstimpressions of the m

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