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«For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.»
Author: Dorothy Dix
(Columnist, Journalist)
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all over, bread, burden, callous, cruel, dependency, forced, forlorn, humiliation, humiliations, piteous, scarred, Speeches, stabbing, stabs, stairs, steep, steeped, steeps, unwelcome
«We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life / some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed / because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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affections, affliction, confess, contemplated, disappointed, exclusively, helplessness, laughed, passionate, Personal experience, piteous
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