"Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent."
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"The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases."
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"True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint."
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"From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion."
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"The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them."
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"Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest"
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"I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject."
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"The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me."
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"For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use."
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"I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden."
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"A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!"
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"It is easier to sacrifice great than little things."
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"We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned."
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"God defend me from myself."
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"Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing."
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"A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens."
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"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."
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"Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think"
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"Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure."
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"All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there."
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