"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."

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"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."

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"It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself."

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"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

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"Wishes are held to be ominous; according to which belief the order of the world is so arranged that if you have an impious objection to a squint, your offspring is more likely to be born with one; also, that if you happen to desire a squint, you would not get it. This desponding view of probability the hopeful entirely reject, taking their wishes as good and sufficient security for all kinds of fulfilment."

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