"Wie die Männer es am besten verstehen, die Vorzüge der Frauen zu erkennen, so fällen die Frauen oft die richtigsten Urtheile von uns. Beide Geschlechter scheinen sich als Kundschafter bewachen zu sollen, und sind mit verschiedenen Fähigkeiten ausgestattet, die sie zu dieser wechselseitigen Aufsicht tauglich machen."
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Der Landprediger zu Wakefield, übersetzt von W.A. Lindau, Dresden 1825, S. 82-83
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Oliver Goldsmith
1728 – 1774
irischer Dichter
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