How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTInto 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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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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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
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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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It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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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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It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
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The beginning is always today.
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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
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Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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It is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.
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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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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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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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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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It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
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Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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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.
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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