Rule

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    It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Your favor containing the question, as to whether I consider myself a “new woman” is before me. As a rule I do not consider myself at all. I am, and always have been a progressive woman, and while never directly attacking the conventionalities of society, have always done, or attempted to do those things which I have considered conducive to my health, convenience or emolument ...
    Belva Lockwood (1830–1917)

    In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
    Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)