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• ‟ They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

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• ‟ 'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

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• ‟ Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

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• ‟ Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

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• ‟ The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse.

  - Dorothea Dix