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Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.

Mary Hays

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Mary Hays

Mary Hays

Born: October 13, 1759
Died: February 20, 1843 (aged 83)
Bio: Mary Hays was an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels, and several works on famous women.

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