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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 time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. – Benjamin Franklin

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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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