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Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

— George Chapman The Gentleman Usher (1606)

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Source: The Gentleman Usher (1606), Strozza, Act IV, scene i
Work: The Gentleman Usher, 1606
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