“Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.”
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Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
