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“When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.”

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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