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"If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others."
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"I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian."

"I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men."

"The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere."

"The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not."

"I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work."

"People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear."
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