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English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.


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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.



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What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.



Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.



Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.



Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.



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