Famous quotes containing the words act and/or allowed:
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Mothers with marriageable daughters ought to look out for men of this stamp, men with brains to act as protecting divinity, with worldly wisdom to diagnose like a surgeon, and with experience to take a mothers place in warding off evil. These are the three cardinal virtues in matrimony.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“I shall have the veil withdrawn and be allowed to gaze unblinded on the narrow limits of my own possibilities.”
—Beatrice Potter Webb (18581943)