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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTTaught 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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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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The beginning is always today.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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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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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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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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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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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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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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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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