Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
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