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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
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"The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences."

"I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse."

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."

"Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted."

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."

"We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman."
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