- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
- Christian Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
- Nov 07, 2020
He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020