Jean Ingelow: Herring

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“[H]e could not escape thinking of her, being the slave for the moment of every pretty girl. Good young men generally are.”

Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 19, p. 224.

“[H]e was a graduate in nature's university. Nature is wiser than the schoolmaster; she educates but she never crams. Her scholars do not go up to take their degrees; their degrees come to them.”

Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 16, p. 198.

“I do not know why a girl should be expected to talk well till she is at least twenty. There cannot be much in her, she may be prettily exacting, or charmingly modest, but her attractions must be personal, not intellectual.”

Source: Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872), Ch. 12, p. 188.

“A man's world, but woman bides her time.”

Source: John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways (1886), Ch. 7, p. 107.

“Is it what we impart, or impute to nature from ourselves, that we chiefly lean upon? or does she truly impart of what is really in her to us?”

Source: Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875), Ch. 25, p. 315.