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This quote is just one of 8 total Dorothea Dix quotes in our collection. Dorothea Dix is known for saying 'The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.' as well as some of the following quotes.
A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.
Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
This quote is just one of 8 total Dorothea Dix quotes in our collection. Dorothea Dix is known for saying 'The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.' as well as some of the following quotes.