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> [“Some would say it hardly mattered what women thought of Tavius, that even senators' wives, like Mucia, had no power to shape events. But what if Portia, Brutus's beloved wife, rather than encouraging his plan to assassinate Julius Caesar, had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phyllis-t-smith/some-would-say-it-hardly-mattered-what-women-thought-of-tavius-that/)

[Phyllis T. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phyllis-t-smith/)

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