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"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
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"If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled."
"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."
"If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'"
"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."
"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence."
"The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't."
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