Learning, certainly, can never with propriety be esteemed a burthen, and when the mind is judiciously balanced, it renders the possessor not only more valuable, but also more amiable, and more generally useful. Literary acquisitions can never—unless insanity derange the faculties of the mind—be lost, and while the goods of fortune may be whelmed beneath the contingencies of revolving time, intellectual property still remains, and the mental funds can never be exhausted. The accomplished, the liberally accomplished female, if she is destined to move in the line of competency, will be regarded as a pleasing, and instructive companion—whatever she does will connect an air of persuasive elevation—wherever she may be adventitiously called, genuine dignity will be the accompaniment of her steps—she will always be attended to with pleasure, and she cannot fail of being distinguished—should she, in her career of life, be arrested by adverse fortune, many resources of relief, of pleasure, and of emolument, open themselves before her—and she is not necessarily condemned to laborious efforts, or to the drudgery of that unremitted sameness, which the ro[u]tine of the needle presents. ~Judith Sargent Murray, The Gleaner, Massachusetts Magazine, September 1792
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