Daughters

(150 votes)   The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(148 votes)   How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

John Gay
1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet

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(129 votes)   Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life.

Dinah Mulock Craik

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(128 votes)   You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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