"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."

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"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."

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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"

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"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."

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