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La Rochefoucauld 340: The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason.
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The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason. ["Women have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit, but for solid reasoning and good sense I never knew one in my life that had it, and who reasoned and acted consequentially for four and twenty hours together."--Lord Chesterfield, Letter 129.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_340
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