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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

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I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 12th, 1802

Died: June 27th, 1876

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