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Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole (1717–1797), British author. Horace Walpole's Miscellany 1786-1795, p. 69, ed. Lars E. Troide, Yale University Press (1978).

Originally written in 1788; William Pulteney (1684-1764), Earl of Bath, statesman, reflects his age's suspicion of women's understanding.

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