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"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."
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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached."
"If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'"
"To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself."
"Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind."
"The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't."
"None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue."
"We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin."
"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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