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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and i

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. – 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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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. – Mary Astell

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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. – Mary Astell

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats

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