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"We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched."

"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."

"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."

"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all."

"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."
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"The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing."

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
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