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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTShe 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.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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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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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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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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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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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.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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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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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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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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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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Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT






