Man reaches the maturity of his reasoning and mental faculties scarcely before he is eight-and-twenty; woman when she is eighteen; but hers is reason of very narrow limitations.
Pessimist philosophy
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"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."
Strange & Unusual"It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulses that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race."
Shocking"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
Strange & Unusual"No man is happy; he can only strive to be so."
Humorous"She pays the debt of life not by what she does but by what she suffers—by the pains of child-bearing, care for the child, and by subjection to man, to whom she should be a patient and cheerful compani…"
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