"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."
-Samuel Johnson
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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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"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
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