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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTFriendship 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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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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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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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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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 do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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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.
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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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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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Men of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
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All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
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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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