"Freedom cannot be bestowed — it must be achieved."

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“Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, "I have done it."”

“If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.”

“Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.”

“Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life.”

“A Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.”

“Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.”

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