"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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"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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"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."

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"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."

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"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."

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"That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments."

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"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."

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"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."

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"Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit."

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"Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail."

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