If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.Mary Astell
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
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We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.
Mary Astell
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.
Mary Astell
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
Mary Astell
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