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No nation ever rises higher than its women.
Nellie L. McClung
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Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.
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Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.
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That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.
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War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.
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the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
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The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.
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It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
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Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
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People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.
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