Jonathan Swift on Women
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“Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.”
“Sheperd: Thanks, gentle Echo, right thy answers tell, What woman is, and how to guard her well. Echo: Guard her well.”
“Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavour to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then crow wise for spite.”