G.A. Henty Quotes

Women are always passionately certain that they are right, and neither counsel nor entreaty can get them to believe that there can be any other side to a case than that which they take.

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• Women are always passionately certain that they are right, and neither counsel nor entreaty can get them to believe that there can be any other side to a case than that which they take.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Women
  • Right
  • Certain