The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her - "Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness..." (George Eliot)

The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her - "Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness..."

George Eliot

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