Since Tom came home with Rye.
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A Chapter on Women
Charles Nodier—Of all the animals, cats, flies and women take the longest time in dressing.
Chamfort—A woman is like your shower; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
La Rochefoucauld—There are no women the merit of whom lasts longer than the beauty.
Fontenelle—Most women prefer that one should talk ill of their virtue rather than ill of their wit or of their beauty.
Balzac—A virtuous woman has in the heart a fiber less or a fiber more than other women; she is stupid or sublime.
Delphine de Girardin—Nothing, after a stupid woman, is rarer in France than a generous woman.
George Sand—Woman is stupid by nature.