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... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.
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Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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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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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
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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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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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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
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I think I love most people best when they are in adversity for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
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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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Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
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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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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
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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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The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
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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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