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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beginning Education People Teaching Thinking Young
Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Affection Potential Self Love
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
Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Nature Respect Violence
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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End Life Necessary Price
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
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Expectation Independence Man Virtue Woman
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.
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Feeling Happiness Myself See Time
True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
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Feeling Genius Soul True Virtue
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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Love Man Myself Reality Reason
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
Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
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Happiness Love Man Sex Woman
Soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
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Heart Myself Taste Virtue
Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
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Character Reason
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Justice Man Reason
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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Death Eat Food Language Love Moral Philosophy Reality Reason

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

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