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Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

William Congreve

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Congreve, William. The Mourning Bride. 1697, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Why then should women be denied the benefit of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God Almighty would never have given them capacities.

Daniel Defoe

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Defoe, Daniel. "Of Academies: An Academy for Women." An Essay Upon Projects. London: Tho. Cockerill, 1697.

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War, he sung, is Toil and Trouble;
Honour, but an empty Bubble.
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying;
If the World be worth thy winning,
Think, O think it worth enjoying.

John Dryden

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Dryden, John. Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Musique an Ode, in Honour of St. Cecilia's Day. London: Jacob Tonson, 1697, I. 97.

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Dryden, John. "Alexander's Feast." John Dryden Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, I. 97.

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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.

William Congreve

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Congreve, William. The Mourning Bride. 1697, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

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Why then should women be denied the benefit of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God Almighty would never have given them capacities.

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War, he sung, is Toil and Trouble; Honour, but an empty Bubble. Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the World be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying.

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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.

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Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

War, he sung, is Toil and Trouble;
Honour, but an empty Bubble.
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying;
If the World be worth thy winning,
Think, O think it worth enjoying.