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  1. I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more th…
  2. I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
  3. Though he made a joke when asked to do the right thing, he always did it. He was so much more in earnest than he appeared. He did not do hi…
  4. Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not …
  5. To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
  6. Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity - these three - and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Men sa…
  7. Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogethe…
  8. Suffering, sad 'female humanity!' What are these feelings which they are taught to consider as disgraceful, to deny to themselves? What for…

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