"All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order."

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"All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order."

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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

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"I hate women because they always know where things are."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

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"Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons."

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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation."

God

"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do."

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"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

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"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm."

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"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike."

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"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."

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"A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell."

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"Human nature is above all things lazy."

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"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."

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"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today."

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