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rules as Young ladies are not
For instance, if your teachers were to set about making a set of rules do you suppose any one of them would have thought of making such rules as: "Young ladies are not permitted to go to the roof of the house and sit with their feet dangling over the railings of the balcony;" or "Young ladies must not go into people's pastures and catch their ponies to go riding;" or "When young ladies are out riding in a buggy it is not allowable for one of the young ladies to ride on the horse which the others are driving."
— from Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls by Helen Ekin Starrett

ruffian all your life and no
“You’ve been a bullying ruffian all your life, and no one has had the pluck to stand up to you.
— from The Bishop's Apron: A study in the origins of a great family by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

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