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"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so."
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"Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry."
"But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?"
"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."
"There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land."
"For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe."
"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."
"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
"Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts."
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