Aristocracy Quote by Catharine Beecher

“The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.” quote by Catharine Beecher — Download Open image

“The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.”

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... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on…

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As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

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... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of…

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The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling…

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