Harriet Martineau citations

“What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?”

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Harriet Martineau

Occupation, vol. 3, Society in America (1837).

“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”

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“For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen … than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.”

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Harriet Martineau

Occupation, vol. 3, Society in America (1837).

“Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”

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Harriet Martineau

“Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.”

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Women, vol. 3, Society in America (1837).

“If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.”

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Harriet Martineau

Women, vol. 3, Society in America (1837).