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Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
Physician
Psychologist
Writer
Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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Beauty is the child of love.
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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
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Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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