Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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I found in you a holy place apart, Sublime endurance, God in man revealed; Where mending broken bodies slowly healed; My broken heart.
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