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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Rich Sex Vice Woman
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Expectation Independence Man Virtue Woman
I like to use significant words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Myself Word
Soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Heart Myself Taste Virtue
True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Feeling Genius Soul True Virtue
She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Herself Thinking Voice
It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Disappointment Love Trust
Friendship 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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Friendship Happiness Heart Mindset People World
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Equality Life
I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Character Human Myself Sex Virtue
The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Endurance Human Insult Patience Right Silence Wrong
Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Imagination Philosophy
After attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Greatness Injury Moral Myself Power
Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Devil Virtue
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Justice Man Reason
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

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