One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he — Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he — Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he — Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he — Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he — Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
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One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

— Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
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