Women, you know, are characters full of imperfections, created for the misfortune of mankind: to expect anything good from them is to require them to perform impossibilities.
 Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte of Bragelonne (1847). copy citation

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Author Alexandre Dumas
Source The Vicomte of Bragelonne
Topic impossibility imperfection
Date 1847
Language English
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““You permitted us to be deceived by this shameless trick.” “Sire,” said Saint-Aignan, whose agitation was such as to make him tremble in every limb, “let me entreat your majesty not to exasperate yourself. Women, you know, are characters full of imperfections, created for the misfortune of mankind: to expect anything good from them is to require them to perform impossibilities.” The king, who had the greatest consideration for himself, and who had begun to acquire over his emotions that command which he preserved over them all his life, perceived that he was doing an outrage to his own dignity in displaying so much animosity about so trifling an object.” source