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'It's not,' Danvers amended, as he stood with his arm about her, 'that women have not the ability to do anything they want,' for he was ever chivalrous, 'but that God in his wisdom gave them a great and special work, and they should be kept strong and safe and holy for its fulfilment.'

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A bit of rhyme was a choicer draught to me than a glass of an old vintage.

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Ye can't educate a woman as ye can a man. With six thousand years of heredity, the physiology of the female sex, and the Lord himself against you, I'm thinking it wise for you to have your daughter reared like other women, to fulfil woman's great end.

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It's a wise man that understands that no two women are alike.

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Justice to his mind was a simple thing; a man had either broken the law or he had not; if he had, he should be punished. 'Extenuating circumstances' was a phrase used only by the sentimental and the guilty.

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Ye'll learn perhaps that in law, a friend prosecuting is better than a friend defending!

Elinor Macartney Lane

Elinor Macartney Lane

Elinor Macartney Lane

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Born: 1864

Died: March 15, 1909 (aged 45)

Bio: Elinor Macartney Lane was an American novelist who was popular in the first decade of the 1900s. After publishing a number of short stories, she wrote three novels: Mills of God, Nancy Stair, and Katrine.

Known for:

Nancy Stair (1904)
Katrine: A Novel (1909)
Mills of God (1901)

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