"If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?"

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Source : Reflections upon Marriage, 3rd ed., preface (1706)

Mary Astell

#States Quotes #Sovereignty Quotes

“I am always trying to write.”
“Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,”
“When you get that person out of that dude, that's the real person, you know. And I don't think its dead, but it needs to be more examples, of what a true gentleman and what a true man in every sense of the word is, and that's what I try to be.”

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“I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.”
“I want to be a worshiper with that heart-desperate to be as close to my Savior as possible, and following his every move and step.”
“Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.”
“If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.”
“Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.”

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