Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of wom…

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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA
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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

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