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“No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.” quote by William Law — Download Open image

“No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.”

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