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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will
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That any living woman should prefer it to home and husband, to love and motherhood, throws a fierce light on what women must have suffered for lack of freedom before.
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It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.
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The love of protecting too often degenerates into downright tyranny.
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My heart rebelled against God, who had taken from me mother, father, mistress, and friend.
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The most serious effect upon the poor comes when dependence upon the charitable society is substituted for the natural outgoing of human love and sympathy, which, happily, we all possess in some degree.
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Better far this nameless void that stops my life than a sea of sorrow for you.