Ah child and youth if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.
Christine De Pizan
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Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering women in general
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As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman the lady Eve that man was expelled from paradise my answer to them would be that man has gained far more through Mary than he ever lost through Eve.
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