“I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women should seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot. Either their hands are so constructed or else our noses are good for nothing else.”
From:
How the two Ivans quarrelled by Nikolai Gogol
I guess women have always had this ability to lead men around with their noses like cattle!
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