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• And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

  John Dryden

  Hunting, Design, Devil

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.271

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• Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

  Joyce Brothers

  Love, Marriage, Spiritual

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• In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Sex, Memorable, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.151, Penguin

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• I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  May, Too Much, Impression

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Man with the Twisted Lip" (1891). Holmes enigmatically distrusts women yet values their judgment.

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• You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Children, Hysteria, Movement

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• A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

  Joanna Baillie

  Courageous, Danger, Dear

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.709

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• Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Implied, Ifs

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
  [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

  Plautus

  Anger, Males, Easier

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• The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Garden, Deceit, Stills

  Joseph Glanvill (1985). “Collected works of Joseph Glanvill”

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• Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?

  Owen Feltham

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

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• Woman, last at the cross, and earliest at the grave.

  Eaton Stannard Barrett

  Lasts, Crosses, Graves

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• Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Shade, Woods, Plant

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.54

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• Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst,
  Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest,
  With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd,
  And wander'd in the solitary shade.
  The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd
  Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.

  Alexander Pope

  Shade, Lasts, Looks

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1851). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.255

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• Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Modest, Bashful

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• Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below
  Man can receive, or Providence bestow.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Men, Providence

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1886). “Poems”

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• A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Hands, Ifs

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• Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Ocean, Eden, Earth

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• O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet,
  Completing him not otherwise complete!
  How void and useless the sad remnant left
  Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

  Abraham Coles

  Sweet, Useless, Void

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79

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• When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Different, Littles, Matter

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.9

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• That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em,
  We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.

  Frederic Reynolds

  Ems, May, Scorn

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• When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
  He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
  But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail,
  For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Pride, Scare, Female

  "The Female of the Species" st. 1 (1911)

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• If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

  Aime Martin

  People, Political, Moral

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• A pretty woman's worth some pains to see,
  Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown
  Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Pretty Woman, Crowns

  Robert Browning (1863). “Paracelsus. Pippa passes. King Victor and King Charles. Colombe's birthday”, p.316

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• There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
  A woman's at the bottom.
  [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

  Juvenal

  Cases, Bottom, Scarce

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