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A Woman's Promises
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ANGER may sometimes make dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Queen
Elizabeth seeing a disappointed courtier walking with a melancholy face
in one of her gardens, asked him, What does a man think of when he
thinks of nothing?--Of a woman's promises! was the reply; to which
the Queen returned, I must not confute you, Sir Edward, and she left
him.
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