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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
- Harriet Martineau
#Europe
#Kitchen
#My Own
#Own
#Work
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
- Harriet Martineau
#Honorable
#More
#Ought
#Responsibility
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
- Harriet Martineau
#Conscience
#False
#Modesty
#Only
#Which
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
- Harriet Martineau
#Country
#Earth
#Love
#True Love
#True
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
- Harriet Martineau
#Great Ideas
#Great
#Ideas
#Small
#Soul
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
- Harriet Martineau
#I Am
#See
#Seeing
#Things
#Through
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
- Harriet Martineau
#Land
#Life
#Mind
#More
#My Life
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.
- Harriet Martineau
#Love
#Men And Women
#Men
#See
#Women
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
- Harriet Martineau
#Human Nature
#Knowledge
#Nature
#Opinion
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
- Harriet Martineau
#Civilization
#Half
#Power
#Society
#Test
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
- Harriet Martineau
#Best
#Great
#Ideas
#Small
#Soul
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.
- Harriet Martineau
#Cannot
#Help
#Laws
#Observation
#Process
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
#Education
#Life
#Marriage
#Think
#Women
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
- Harriet Martineau
#Pursuit
#Religion
#Temper
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
- Harriet Martineau
#Always
#Class
#Efforts
#Place
#Through
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
- Harriet Martineau
#Best
#Live
#Preparation
#Today
#Tomorrow
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