If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.Abigail Adams
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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. . . a habit the pleasure of which increases with practice, but becomes more urksome with neglect.
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