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There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or fail to do it.
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Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
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Born:
February 28, 1797
Died:
March 5, 1849
(aged 52)
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Mary Mason Lyon was an American pioneer in women's education. She established the Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, in 1834.
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