I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.Daniel Defoe
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
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Now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
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Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
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To-day we love what to-morrow we hate to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.
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