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"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence."
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"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached."
"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence."
"That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds."
"We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness."
"Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in."
"The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes."
"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"
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