"It is the rank and file - the……" — Mary Augusta Ward
"It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly."
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25 Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward has 25 quotes on this site.
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My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest…
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Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
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A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a…
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As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
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A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found…
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing…
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties…
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I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
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More Astonishingly Quotes
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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
— Keith Crown
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How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor…
— John Keats
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were…
— Eric Hiscock
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But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one…
— Muriel Gray
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Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics…
— Ronald Graham
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
— Andy Hobsbawm
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The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
— John Szarkowski
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So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the…
— Francine Prose
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Women share this planet 50/ 50 and they are underrepresented -- their potential astonishingly untapped.
— Emma Watson
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If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task…
— Arne Jacobsen
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The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.
— Dorothy Kilgallen
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