A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

John Gay

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Friendship between men and women Men and women

Author

John Gay

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Dione

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1720 1720s 18th century

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United Kingdom Europe

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Gay, John. "Dione." Poems on Several Occasions. London: J. Roberts, 1720, act 4, sc. 6.

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I said there was a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves.

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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Swift, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726, pt. 4, ch. 5.

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Sexual revolution Men and women

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Midge Decter
Language
English
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Decter, Midge. The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation. Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1972, pt. 2, ch. 2.