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Woman is as light as a feather before the breeze. Her tone and thoughts are ever changing.

— Francesco Maria Piave Classical and Foreign Quotations (1904)

La donna è mobile
Qual pium' al vento,
Muta accento, e di pensier.

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pp. 158–9, no. 1232

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