Political literatureIt is humbling to reflect, that in those countries in which the fondness for the mere persons of women is carried to the highest excess, they are slaves; and that their moral and intellectual degradation increases in direct proportion to the adoration which is paid to mere external charms.Hannah More1799★ 3.5
For you'll ne'er mend your fortunes, nor help the just cause, By breaking of windows, or breaking of laws.Hannah More1817★ 1.9
Religious literatureWhether we consider the manual industry of the poor, or the intellectual exertions of the superior classes, we shall find that diligent occupation, if not criminally perverted from its end, is at once the instrument of virtue and the secret of happiness. Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure.Hannah More1813★ 1.9
Is it not a fundamental error to consider children as innocent beings, whose little weaknesses may perhaps want some correction, rather than as beings who bring into the world a corrupt nature and evil dispositions, which it should be the great end of education to rectify?Hannah MoreStrictures on the Modern System of Female Education · 1799★ 1.8
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