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“What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was 't betrayed the Capitol?--A woman! Who lost Mark Antony the world?--A woman! Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes?--Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Orphan. Act iii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b429e70201ef1b8bd8034b59caaefe3e2c989b3a5da6290d3db5734e090ef82b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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