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• “But the fact that so many still appear to have trouble with woman-hatred -- trying to wish it away, reduce its significance, confine its existence to a "lone madman," blame it on a nonexistent Muslim bringing-up, or even, on the fringes, excuse it, tells me that we have much, much further to go.”

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• “Unlike in France or America, where children of divorced parents lost nothing and were at liberty to watch over their bringing-up, according to English law, a guilty mother was entirely deprived of their custody and even access (however, it was allowed for a faithless father).”

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• “I do work in partnerships and it often works - mainly around diverting young people away from the dead-end lives their bringing-up destined them for.”

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• “The Republicans that intented to vote for Obama will change their minds and the GOP spin machine will keep bringing-up Lewinsky and all the other scandals.”

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• “I wish people would stop bringing-up not-so-veiled references to Obama's past drug use.”

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• “I want you, dear Lady Evelyn, to promise me some money, a great deal of money, as much as would buy you a little mannish cloth frock – for the complete bringing-up, until years of discretion, of a young stranger whom the sea has laid upon our shore.”

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• “For (he added), as regards control of appetite and self-indulgence,125 she had received the soundest education, and that I take to be the most important matter in the bringing-up of man or woman.”

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• “[3] During these early days, it must be allowed, the boy was something too much of a talker, in part, may be, because of his bringing-up.”

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• “As the saying is; when the parties are sufficiently known to each other, what needs such scrupulosity, so many circumstances? dost thou know her conditions, her bringing-up, like her person? let her means be what they will, take her without any more ado.”

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• “Liberty — their liberty; an earth-born creature, nursed in the black mud of the Bastile moats and dungeons, and necessarily betraying many evidences of its unwholesome bringing-up — but the Inquisition used it in the name of Heaven.”

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