Quote by Samuel Butler
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. – Samuel Butler

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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. – Samuel Butler

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I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to. – Shakira

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The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue. – Samuel Richardson

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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. – Anita Brookner

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Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form. – Gloria Steinem

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