Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the …

Arthur Schopenhauer
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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, p.261, Simon and Schuster
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