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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Choice Deep Evil Happiness Man Mistake Philosophy
The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Man Struggle Virtue
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Rich Sex Vice Woman
They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Result Slave
Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Act Goodness Man Philosophy Secure Woman
Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Intellectual Sex Strength Virtue
We must all be in love once in our lives.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Life Love Ourselves
If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Children Education Mom Patriotism Principle True
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Human Philosophy
Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Age Enough Learning Live
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Feeling Happiness Myself See Time
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Deserve Ideas Knowledge Mortal Power
The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Herself Willing Woman
They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Man Respect Sex Weakness
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Philosophy Truth Weakness
The beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beginning Inspirational One Liner

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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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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