"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."

Age, Danger, Husbands, Kings

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"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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Victor Hugo, French Author

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream."

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"If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test."

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"Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government."

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"Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense."

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"It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust."

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"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers."

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"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience."

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"The beginning is always today."

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