"The Take" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cole Martina)
Book One
Woman, a pleasing but short-lived flower, Too soft for business and too weak for power: A wife in bondage, or neglected maid: Despised, if ugly; if she's fair, betrayed. – Mary Leapor, 1722-1746 'An Essay on Woman'
Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it. – Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-1861 'The Latest Decalogue'