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“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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