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Harriet Martineau Quotes

1802–1876 England

Harriet Martineau (June 12, 1802 – June 27, 1876) was an English writer and philosopher, known in her day as a journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist.

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Also known as: Martineau, Harriet

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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams;
And sorrow tracketh wrong,
As echo follows song.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen … than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harriet Martineau (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.