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“A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“For all those suffering from an inferiority complex, this is a miraculous liniment; no one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or more disdainful, than a man anxious about his own virility.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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Middlemarch (1)
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