The sum and substance of female educatio

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	"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so." - -- Harriet martineau

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"Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry."
"Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it."
"If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America."
"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so."
"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"

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