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Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
 The virtue of her lively looks
 Excels the precious stone;
  I wish to have none other books
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 The virtue of her lively looks
 Excels the precious stone;
  I wish to have none other books
   To read or look upon. 
 What is lighter than the wind? A feather.
 What is lighter than a feather? Fire.
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 What is lighter than the wind? A feather.
 What is lighter than a feather? Fire.
  What lighter than a fire? A woman.
   What lighter than a woman? Nothing.
    [Lat., Vente quid levius? fulgur. Quid fulgure? flamma
     Flamma quid? mulier. Quid mulier? nihil.] 
Women prefer emotions to reasoning
Women prefer emotions to reasoning
Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage
Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage
 Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
 And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
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 Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd,
 And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude;
  But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their 
rudeness,
   Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good. 
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
 Where is the man who has the power and skill
 To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
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 Where is the man who has the power and skill
 To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
  For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;
   And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.