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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled."

"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."

"If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'"

"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."

"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence."

"The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't."
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