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How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? – Mary Astell

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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. – 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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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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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler

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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury. – Giacomo Casanova

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I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available. – Hillary Clinton

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I dont think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone. – Wayne Rooney

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