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Revenge we find,
The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman-kind.

Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.

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William Gifford, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, 2nd ed. (1806), p. 408

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