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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she is a dry stick as a rule. David Herbert Lawrence		Monday May 19, 2025
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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ... ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . Anne Brontë

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	Anne Brontë
	(1820-1849) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1848 - English novelist, daughter of Patrick Brontë, wrote Agnes Grey & others.

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There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ... ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.