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Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

— Mary Abigail Dodge Country Living and Country Thinking (1862)

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Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more,—and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Country Living and Country Thinking (1862)

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine. It is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

Country Living and Country Thinking (1862)

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

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