"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."
-Samuel Johnson
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.“
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"To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly."
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"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
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"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."
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"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test."
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"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."
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