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As a sex, women are habitually indolent and every thing tends to make them so.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.
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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
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Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.
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Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
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