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Obedience to the behests of duty gives peace, even when love is lacking; and peace is a diviner thing than happiness.

— Mary Livermore

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The very highest function of woman is to raise and train the family; it is the very highest function of man also.

Good health is a great prerequisite of successful or happy living.

Children require simple food, early hours for retiring, and abundance of sleep, as well as freedom from social and religious excitements.

Every boy should have a special fitting for some aim in life. ..Industry is a great means of grace.

“What shall we do with our daughters?” is really the sum and substance of what, I popular phase, is called “the woman question.”

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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