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"A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine."
Morality
"Shadow owes its birth to light."
Independence
"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee."
Love
"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."
Education
"I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them."
Woman
"On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends."
Friendship
"O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on."
Man
"The brave love mercy, and delight to save."
Love
"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."
Intervention
"What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us."
Love
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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
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"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."
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"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."
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"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
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"True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor."
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"When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!"
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"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
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"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."
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"Woman must be financially independent to be free in love."
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"If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope."
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