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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
Business

"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will."
Power

"I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education."
Education

"To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way."
History

"Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death."
Death

"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."
Writer

"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"
Government

"The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest."
Constitution

"As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way."
Indians

"My first book was the book that changed my life."
Life
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