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> [Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day are discussed with reference only to these impossible ideals, we need not marvel at any ridiculous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/most-people-carry-an-ideal-man-and-woman-in-their-head-and-when-the/)

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## More by Mary C. Ames

> [What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/what-more-degrades-woman-today-than-that-she-so-often-seeks-marriage/)

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> [The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/the-woman-born-to-physical-subjection-and-degradation-can-never-seek/)

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> [Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/always-man-needs-woman-for-his-friend-he-needs-her-clearer-vision-her/)

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> [I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/i-lay-my-tasks-down-one-by-one-i-sit-in-the-silence-of-twilight-grace/)

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> [The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/the-man-born-and-bred-a-slave-even-if-freed-never-loses-wholly-the/)

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> [Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/only-a-newspaper-quick-read-quick-lost-who-sums-the-treasure-that-it/)

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> [Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/today-the-manliest-man-would-be-ashamed-to-look-into-the-eyes-of-the/)

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> [What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/what-is-love-at-first-sight-but-a-proof-of-the-powerful-but-silent/)

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> [To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/to-serve-thy-generation-this-thy-fate-written-in-water-swiftly-fades/)

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> [A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/a-shining-isle-in-a-stormy-sea-we-seek-it-ever-with-smiles-and-sighs/)

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> [The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/the-indian-summer-the-dead-summer-s-soul/)

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> [Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/most-people-carry-an-ideal-man-and-woman-in-their-head-and-when-the/)

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> [The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-ames/the-deepest-insult-which-can-be-shown-to-a-human-being-is-to/)

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