"To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life."
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The Pains of Pleasing, ch. 4; Pictures of Private Life, 2nd ser., 3rd ed. (London, 1835), p. 251
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Sarah Stickney Ellis
Sarah Stickney Ellis (née Stickney; 1799 – 16 June 1872) was an English author. She was a Quaker turned Congregationalist. Her numerous books are mostly about women's roles in society. She argued that women had a religious duty as daughters, wives and mothers to provide an influence for good that would improve society.
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