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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIt is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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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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The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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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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Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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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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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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A little patience, and all will be over.
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Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
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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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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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