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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.
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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
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The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
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When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.
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... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant and the remainder vain and mean.
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How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.
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Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
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When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
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