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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue,
Who sayes my hand a needle better fits,
A poet’s pen, all scorne, I should thus wrong;
For such despight they cast on female wits:
If what I doe prove well, it won’t advance,
They’ll say it’s stolne, or else, it was by chance.

— 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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