Date: 1776
"As chaste, as delicate, believe me Lucy, as the opening rose, shou'd be the female heart."
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Date: 1798
"On the contrary, if, to entice him to enter the paths of knowledge, we strew them with flowers, how will he feel when he must force his way through thorns and briars?"
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