“Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.”
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She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.
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