“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”

Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 2.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

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Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894

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