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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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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Education Improvement Sex Woman Writing
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.
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Rich Sex Vice Woman
Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Character Woman
If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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Children Education Mom Patriotism Principle True
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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Appearance Necessary Principle Search Simplicity
How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
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Accomplishment Beautiful Respect Woman
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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Disappointment Love Trust
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.
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Intellectual Sex Strength Virtue
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 greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
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Avoid Divine Greatness Human Law Mindset Opinion People Trust
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
She 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.
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Creation Herself Man Reason
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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Hands Love Simplicity Truth
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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Government Husband Intellectual Woman
A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.
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Himself Sex Woman
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Justice Man Reason

Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.

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