Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTTaxes 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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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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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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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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A little patience, and all will be over.
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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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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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I like to use significant words.
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I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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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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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.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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