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Women have a kind of sturdy sufferance which qualifies them to endure beyond, much beyond, the common run of men, but ... they are by no means famous for seeing remote consequences in all their real importance.
Women have a kind of sturdy sufferance which qualifies them to endure beyond, much beyond, the common run of men, but ... they are by no means famous for seeing remote consequences in all their real importance.
Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
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- Robert Burns
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- Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1759–1796)
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Burns. · page_561
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