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"I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch AND I WILL BE HEARD." – William Lloyd Garrison, "Salutatory of the Liberator", Volume I. No. 1. (1 January 1831).
"Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages: For no one cares for matrimonial cooings. There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss. Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?" – Lord Byron, "Don Juan" (1818-24), Canto III, Stanza 8.
"Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?" – Dinah Craik, "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" (1858), Ch. 10.