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→1803-1873: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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{{Quote|" You women regard men just as you buy books—you never care about what is in them, but how they are bound and lettered."|''The Lady of Lyons''<ref>http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2461/2461-h/2461-h.htm</ref>}} | {{Quote|" You women regard men just as you buy books—you never care about what is in them, but how they are bound and lettered."|''The Lady of Lyons''<ref>http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2461/2461-h/2461-h.htm</ref>}} | ||
{{Quote|" ... they may talk of the devotion of the sex [women], but the most faithful attachment in life is a woman in love—with herself"|''ibid''}} | {{Quote|" ... they may talk of the devotion of the sex [women], but the most faithful attachment in life is a woman in love—with herself"|''ibid''}} | ||
{{Quote|'' Oh, woman! woman! thou shouldst have few sins | {{Quote|'' Oh, woman! woman! thou shouldst have few sins<br /> | ||
Of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author<br /> | |||
Of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author | Of such a book of follies in a man,<br /> | ||
That it would need the tears of all the angels<br /> | |||
Of such a book of follies in a man, | |||
That it would need the tears of all the angels | |||
To blot the record out! | To blot the record out! | ||
|''ibid''}} | |''ibid''}} | ||