Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.
Elizabeth Missing SewellA boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.
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