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"Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval."

"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."

"That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval."

"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
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"Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?"

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."

"A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross."

"With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his."
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