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If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?Mary Astell
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But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?Mary Astell
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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.Mary Astell
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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.Mary Astell
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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.Mary Astell
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.Mary Astell
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.Mary Astell