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The whole World was made for man, but the twelfth part of man for woman: Man is the whole World, and the Breath of God; Woman the rib and crooked piece of man.
The whole World was made for man, but the twelfth part of man for woman: Man is the whole World, and the Breath of God; Woman the rib and crooked piece of man.
Approximate author period: c. 1643 AD · renaissance
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- Sir Thomas Browne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1643 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1605–1682)
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 72 · printed citation: Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) (Religio Medici). · compiler notes excluded
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