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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose…
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the…
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
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The beginning is always today.
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The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind…
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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught…
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him,…
— Georgette Heyer
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Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Okay," I said, clasping her hand. "I swear it. The next time I do something stupid that might get me killed, you…
— Richelle Mead
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She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense…
— Ayn Rand
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You and I By Henry Alford My hand is lonely for your clasping, dear; My ear is tired waiting for your call.…
— Langston Hughes
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I turned my face up to his. I could hardly look at him the same way. I was crying without realizing I'd…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat.…
— Robert Jordan
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This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping…
— Marilyn Monroe
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