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A little patience, and all will be over.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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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Deserve Ideas Knowledge Mortal Power
I gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
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Feeling Happiness Myself See Time
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beyond Business End Fingers Ideas Lie Live Understanding
Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Act Goodness Man Philosophy Secure Woman
Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Affection Potential Self Love
Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
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Education Life Man Mistake Perfection Preparation View
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.
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Friendship Happiness Heart Mindset People World
I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
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Eyes Heart Lips Myself Word
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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Creation Herself Man Reason
Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Character Woman
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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Expectation Independence Man Virtue Woman
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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Beginning Education People Teaching Thinking Young
The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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Endurance Human Insult Patience Right Silence Wrong
I have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.
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Difference Greatness Man Myself Nature Place World
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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Difference Greatness Man Nature
Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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Passionate Reflection Solitude

A little patience, and all will be over.

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