Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely give… — Quoted

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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”

Samuel Johnson · Nature

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

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