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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

Source: Woman Suffrage and Women's Professions, Statistics of Female Health, 1871.
-- Catharine Esther Beecher, (Sep 6 1800-1878), US educator, author; She popularized and shaped a conservative ideological movement to both elevate and entrench woman's place in the domestic sphere of American culture.

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