Anne Seward

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen. ↗

— Anne Seward

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If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing. ↗

— Anne Seward

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Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished. ↗

— Anne Seward

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Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. ↗

— Anne Seward

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To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson! ↗

— Anne Seward

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Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption. ↗

— Anne Seward

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