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Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes: The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
         

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.


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