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A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Charles Dudley Warner
Age: 71 †
Born: 1829
Born: September 12
Died: 1900
Died: October 20
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Hampshire County
Massachusetts
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Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
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