While their sisters are gliding through the mazes of the midnight dance, sons employ the lamp, to treasure up for future use the riches of ancient wisdom or to gather strength and expansion of the mind, in exploring the wonderful paths of philosophy.
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He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labour makes his pupils work the hardest, and bustle the most. A hundred cents of copper, though they make more clatter and fill more space, have only a tenth of the value of one gold eagle.Emma Hart Willard
The education of females has been exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty. . . . though well to decorate the blossom, it is far better to prepare for the harvest.
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Genuine learning has ever been said to give polish to man why then should it not bestow added charm on women.
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