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Lydia M Child: Every human being...

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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Source: Philothea: A Romance, ch. 6, 1836.
-- Lydia M Child, (Feb 11 1802-1880), US author; Her anti-slavery works had great influence in her time; edited Juvenile Miscellany, 1826-34, the first children's monthly in U.S.


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