One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
People lie in everyday conversation to appear more likeable and competent. While men and women lie equally as often, they tend to lie for different reasons.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.