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If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
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If marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, that there are so few happy marriages? Now in answer to this, it is not to be wondered that so few succeed; we should rather be surprised to find so many do, considering how imprudently men engage, the motives they act by, and the very strange conduct they observe throughout.
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If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
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None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
Mary Astell
Born:
November 12, 1666
Died:
May 11, 1731
(aged 64)
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