The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.
Daniel Defoe
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Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.
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All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use, and of all we may heap we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.
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