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The World Is An Old Woman, That Mistakes Any Gilt Farthing For A Gold Coi
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The world is an old woman, that mistakes any gilt farthing for a
gold coin; thereby being often cheated, she will henceforth trust
nothing but the common copper.
-- Carlyle
Related:
On the floor is a gold Zorkmid coin (a valuable collector's item).
You can never trust a woman; she may be true to you.
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman.
That she is a human being is of no concern to him. -- Immanuel Ka...
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
-- Joan Rive...
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
-- Old Testament -- Proverbs xi, 22...
I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck.
Marriage is a two-way proposition, but never let the woman know she is one of the ways....