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• Woman -- a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.
  -- St. Joannes Chrysostomus (St. John Chrysostom) (345?-407 CE)...
• One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
  -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes vii, 28...
• So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book v, Line 896...
• If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkard
  hen you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel," because of the murderers, "Would there were no night," because of the thieves, "Would there were no light," because of the informers, and "Would there were no women," because of adultery....
• Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom
• All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly.
  To believe none so is something worse. -- John Quincy Adam...
• God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman. ADELA ROGERS St. JOHN
• It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Religio Medici, Part ii, Sect. ii...
• Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Third Day...