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Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.


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Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.



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Those who know the least obey the best.



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Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.



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Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.



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Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.



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'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.



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Necessity, the mother of invention.



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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.





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