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Mary Lyon: Nine-tenths of our...

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Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes, ed. Carolyn Warner, 1992.
-- Mary Lyon, (Feb 28 1797-1849), US educator; She founded and was president of Mount Holyoke College, 1837-49.


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