"Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit."
— Effeminacy

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Willis, in Psychological problems in mental deficiency / Seymour B. Sarason, John Doris ; with chapters by Frances Kaplan and M. Michael Klaber, Harper & Row, 1969, p. 211