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It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
Letter to John Thaxter, 15 February 1778 -
It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
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It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.
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It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know, and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
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It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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