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A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men.
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The Duchess of Devonshire's Gossip Guide to the 18th Century by Heather Carroll is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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4 comments:
Huh...i don't quite understand that
I interpreted it as, "stay away from females that take on masculine qualities" (especially noisy masculine qualities!)
Ah that makes a lot more sense!
There are some that I just can't make an ounce from sense of such as, "Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs."
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