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All Quotes Collection
"Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?"
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"Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds."
35
"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."
38
"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."
29
"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it."
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"Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in."
42
"That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments."
31
"None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue."
42
"It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism."
54
"If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey."
35
"That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds."
43
"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."
39
"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman."
43
"I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate."
42
"The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you."
41
"My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from."
40
"Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones."
35
"The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women."
39
"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing."
37
"The only thing I like about rich people is their money."
37
"One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time."
41
"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women."
36
"I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too."
30
"Jimmy Garner is a very gracious guy, as he was then and he is still today."
35
"You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past."
35
"People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know."
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