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James Howell on Women

1590–1666 Wales

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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

Familiar Letters (1645)

A Woman and a Cherry paint themselves for their hurt, viz. the one to be tempted, the other to be eaten.

Paroimiographia Proverbs (1659)

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