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“... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.”

Would Be Pleasure Impossible Higher Paid Surprise All Time Estimation Deference

Book:Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

Source: Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820

“I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.”

Should Wells War Action Moving Pleasure Land Paid Seeking Ease Feds One Woman Countrymen Pleasure Seeking

Author:Clara Barton

“Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.”

Asks Pleasure Danger Paid Peril

Book:Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately

Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately

“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.”

Interest Pleasure Planets Paid Silent Heavy Remembered Compounds Compound Interest

Author:John Lubbock