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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…
• Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
• Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
• Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
• Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
• It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the…
• It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
• The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
• The beginning is always today.
• The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind…
• To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught…
• I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

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