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  • I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

    "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte, Ch. III : A Controversy; Helen to Gilbert, 1848.