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Anne Wood Price Bradstreet ( – 1707) was the wife of Dudley Bradstreet and accused "witch" during the Salem Witch Trials.
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
“Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.”
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