Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choo…

Samuel Johnson
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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. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, p.257
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