“ A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. ”
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“ For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. ”
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“ I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. ”
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“ An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. ”
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“ Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ”
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“ We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist. ”
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“ We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist. ”
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“ I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. ”
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“ His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy! ”
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“ I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. ”
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“ I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice. ”
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“ An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. ”
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“ I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. ”
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“ I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. ”
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“ I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails. ”
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“ I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails. ”
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“ We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us — loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe — yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below! ”
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“ I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting. ”
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“ What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic. ”
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“ When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl — and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to — which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage. ”
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“ When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl — and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to — which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage. ”
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“ None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world — so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be… ”
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“ None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world — so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be… ”
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“ We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist. ”
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“ Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ”
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“ The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Woman's Rights" with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety. ”
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“ When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl — and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to — which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage. ”
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