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“As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.”
—John Stuart Mill (18061873)
“... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriageonly for appendages and dead weights to husbandsof bringing them up without an occupation, profession, or employment, and thus leaving them dependent on anyone but themselvesis an enormous evil, and an unpardonable sin.”
—Harriot K. Hunt (18051875)
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