"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."
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Sometimes published as an anonymous saying, this was attributed to Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in Henry Rowley, Is It Nothing To You? Social Purity, A Grave Moral Question (1884), p. 88; to Samuel Taylor Coleridge in "Would You Be Re-elected", Munsey's Magazine (April 1909), p. 769; and to de Staël in Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Sources in History (2003), p. 294
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