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If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none;
And for thy Mother, she alas is poor,
Which caus'd her thus to send thee out of door.

— Anne Bradstreet

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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

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Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire,
Fly back and sing amidst this choir.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

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