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How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!

Mary Wollstonecraft

Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Affection Potential Self Love
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
The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Herself Willing Woman
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Heart Herself Photograph See
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.
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Beyond Business End Fingers Ideas Lie Live Understanding
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
She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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Herself Thinking Voice
Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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Establishment Man Woman Worth
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Human Philosophy
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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Equality Life
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
All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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Humanity Right Violence
Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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Devil Virtue
Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Nature Respect Violence
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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End Mindset Strength Woman
The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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Man Struggle Virtue

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