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Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

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Had I wanted to see something of society, it seemed hardly fair that I should never give myself an opportunity of judging and being judged by it.

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The doctor dismounted, and presently came to make our acquaintance. Dr. Howe made upon us an impression of unusual force and reserve.

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While I am employed with frictions my husband is dealing with facts, but as we both seek truth which lies beyond either, we do not get so very far apart as you would think.

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Life is so short, and friendship so precious!

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One might think that the genius of this age must have uttered a like injunction.

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How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

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When the ship rolled and I felt myself going, I generally made for the stoutest man in sight and pitched into him... little of the old mischief left, you see.

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It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

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I have been leading a very lonely and unsympathetic life ever since I came from Newport.

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Good ladies make good stewardesses.

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I am able to think, to study and to pray, things which I cannot accomplish when my brain is oppressed.

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I find society most uninteresting after that of Rome-my books are now the only things for me.

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He has been in a very dangerous state, very near insanity, and if I have done my best for him and my children for staying here, you will neither regret nor complain of it.

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His true devotion has won me from the world and from myself. I am the captive of his bow and spear.

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I rush into your presence with all the madness of a disordered mind-it is your fault, yours.

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God will help me! I am so tired!

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I am intent mainly upon holding on to the ropes, and upon getting through the present without too much consciousness of it.

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It is better not to entertain at all, than to entertain badly.

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We are fulfilling the destiny of women, we are learning to live for others more than for ourselves.

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