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Affection Quote by Mary Hays

“Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time,…” quote by Mary Hays
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“Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.”

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