World Women

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“We, too, had good attendance once,
Hearers and hearteners of the work;
Aye, horsemen for companions,
Before the merchant and the clerk
Breathed on the world with timid breath.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus’s spear: if one end kills, the other cures.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)