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I think I love most people best when they are in adversity for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
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The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.
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Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.
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It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.
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Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!
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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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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I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.
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My husband - my king.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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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 endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
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When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
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