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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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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. – Mary Astell

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