“Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.”
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What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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