“Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), line 70.
“There is no denying the fact, that in all sudden emergencies a woman has ten times the presence of mind, or, to use the common expression, her wits more about her than a man.”
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
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