We must all be in love once in our lives.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTFriendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.
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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
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She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
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They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
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The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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In short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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