“The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself — a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.”

—  Dinah Craik

Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 9

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English novelist and poet 1826–1887

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