You think that I am impoverishing myself by withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals as surely as the savage tribes left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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How earthy old people become mouldy as the grave Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
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