“The ideal man bears the accidents of life
With dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.”
Joseph Addison book Cato
Act V, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
“In general, the woman bears the small misfortunes and continued disappointments of life best, and the man bears best the great ones.”
Source: Don John (1881), Ch. 6, p. 74.
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