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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.
-Mary Astell
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Hitherto I Have Courted Truth With A

Mary Astell
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.
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