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"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"
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"All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."


"I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third."


"When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."


"If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic."


"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."


"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion."


"Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance."
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