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What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
Quote byThomas Otway · 1652–1685
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Orphan (1680), Act iii. Sc. 1. Compare: "O woman, woman! when to ill thy mind/ Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend", Alexander Pope, Homer’s Odyssey, book xi., line 531..
English (original)
What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was ’t betrayed the Capitol?—A woman! Who lost Mark Antony the world?—A woman! Who was the cause of a long ten years’ war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes?—Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!
— Thomas Otway
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