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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. – Benjamin Franklin

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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. – Irish Proverb

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Woman has relied heretofore too entirely for her support on the needle – that one-eyed demon of destruction that slays thousands annually; that evil genius of our sex, which, in spite of all our devotion, will never make us healthy, wealthy, or wise. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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