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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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Mary Augusta Ward
writer, novelist, children's writer, literary editor
1851 – 1920
Mary Augusta Ward was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. She worked to improve education for the poor, setting up a Settlement in London. She was a staunch opponent of giving women the right to vote, and in 1908 she became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League.
All Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward
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This Laodicean cant of tolerance.
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All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems — but God remains.
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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
— Mary Augusta Ward