Cut down the proud towering thoughts that you get into you, or see they be pure as well as high. There is a nobler ambition than the gaining of all California would be, or the getting of all the suffrages that are on the planet just now.
1860s, On The Choice Of Books (1866)
“We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV
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