But what man has assurance enough but to pretend to know thoroughly the riddle of a woman’s mind, and who could ever hope to fix her mutable nature?[translation by John Willis Clark]But who is there in the world that can boast of having fathomed or understood the wavering mind and unstable nature of a woman?[translation by John Ormsby][Pero ¿quién hay en el mundo que se pueda alabar que ha penetrado y sabido el confuso pensamiento y condición mudable de una mujer?]

Source:(ed. 1871), Part I, Chapter XXVI, Page 165; (ed. 1885), Part I, Chapter XXVII, Volume II, Page 52
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