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Henry Louis Mencken quotesA nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
Victor Hugo quotesThe convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
Ambrose Bierce quotesConvent: A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.