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England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
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Women wear the breeches... in a word, the world turned upside downward.
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I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Born:
February 8, 1577
Died:
January 25, 1640
(aged 62)
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