English/places

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    He that seeks trouble never misses.
    —17th-Century English proverb, first collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)