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It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.

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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

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. . . we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

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To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

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But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (. . . ) Is it then surprising that when the sole ambition of woman centres in beauty, and interest gives vanity additional force, perpetual rivalships should ensue? They are all running the same race, and would rise above the virtue of morals, if they did not view each other with a suspicious and even envious eye.

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When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

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And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.

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