I think that every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking, or some … - Frances Power Cobbe

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I think that every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking, or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford; thus completing her life by adding to her private duties the noble effort to advance God's Kingdom beyond the bounds of her home.

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About Frances Power Cobbe

(4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist, and leading campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the (NAVS) in 1875, and the (BUAV) in 1898.

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Alternative Names: Merlin Nostradamus Frances Cobbe Frances Power
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The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.

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I could not bear it did I not believe in another life for the poor harmless victims where their wrongs will be recompensed, & I may add also in another life for their inhuman persecutors where they will all repent in moral agony worse than the physical pain of their poor victims.

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