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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."

"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."
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"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

"If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test."

"The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason."

"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust."

"In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason."

"Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream."

"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain."

"I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man."

"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."
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