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"True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor."
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"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
"Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over."
"A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one's life is a good thing to do."
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
"For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom."
"The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has-from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness."
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"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."
"There are times when you have to do things for yourself, not because no one else can do it, but because no one else can do it to the degree you want."
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"When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar."
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