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Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.

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We become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.

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A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

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A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

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Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Elizabeth Missing Sewell
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Born: February 19, 1815
Died: August 17, 1906 (aged 91)
Bio: Elizabeth Missing Sewell was an English author of religious and educational texts notable in the 19th century.
Known for:
  1. Amy Herbert (1844)
  2. Laneton Parsonage (1846)
  3. The experience of life (1853)
  4. Impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin (1862)
  5. Ursula V1 (1858)

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