“So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.”
“People mutht be amuthed. They can’t be alwayth a learning, nor yet they can’t be alwayth a working, they an’t made for it.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers’ ends.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“The generality of people cannot see or feel poetically, they want fancy, and therefore fly from solitude in search of sensible objects;”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Pope’s summary of their character to be just, “that every woman is at heart a rake,”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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