O Woman, Perfect Woman! What Distraction Was Meant To Mankind When Thou Wast Made A Devil!

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• T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
  -- John Gay (1688-1732) -- The Beggar's Opera, Act i, Sc. 1...
• Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity 's the straightest.
  -- Beaumont and Fletcher -- The Knight of Malta, Act i, Sc. 1...
• 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!...
• O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank state
  hou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people!...
• Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany!
  Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety....
• If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.
  -- John Gay (1688-1732) -- The Beggar's Opera, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper ma
  we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you...
• If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act iii, Sc. 1...
• There 's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy
  O sweetest Melancholy! -- John Fletcher (1576-1625) -- The Nice Valour, Act iii, Sc. 3...