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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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Anna Brownell Jameson
Age: 66 †
Born: 1794
Born: January 1
Died: 1860
Died: January 1
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All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase profound cunning, has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.
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A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
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Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
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Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.
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Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
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whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.
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If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
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