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Frailty, thy name is woman!
From Hamlet by William Shakespeare; this proverb is taken to mean that women are weaker than men.
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“Without suggesting that chivalry is dead, we no longer hold to Shakespeare’s immortal phrase ‘Frailty, thy name is woman,’ ” Judge Mansfield wrote.
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Your account of the Nunneries you have visited, confirms Hamlets verdict: 'Frailty, thy name is woman!'
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He shares no joy on this occasion of his mother's wedding, and his first words are a short recitative about "frailty, thy name is woman."
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This was the sum of his thoughts; being literary, they wandered into quotation: '"Frailty, thy name is woman!"
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"O frailty, thy name is woman."
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