The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and … - Harriet Martineau

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I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.

Harriet Martineau

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

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