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Date: Saturday, May 5, 1711
"Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion, not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blow up in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)