Women are never supposed to have any occupation of sufficient importance not to be interrupted, except 'suckling their fools '; and women themselves have accepted this, have written books to support it, and have trained themselves so as to consider whatever they do as not of such value to the world or to others, but that they can throw it up at the first 'claim of social life.' They have accustomed themselves to consider intellectual occupation as a merely selfish amusement, which it is their ' duty ' to give up for every trifler more selfish than themselves.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived. The stimulus, the …

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Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to p…

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You don't have to go to college to be a success ... We need the people who run the offices, the people who do the hard physical work of our society.

O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.