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"The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"
"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."
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"Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds."
"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."
"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."
"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached."
"We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may."
"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"
"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."
"None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves."
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