Greatest Number

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“Modesty, ‘tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“... is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the advantages enjoyed by men of the same class will lessen essentially the number of thoughtless, idle, vain and frivolous women and thus secure the [sic] society the services of those who now hang as dead weight?”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)