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Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.

Mary Wollstonecraft

All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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Equality Establishment Man Power Virtue Weakness
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Justice Man Reason
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
Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
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Affection Potential Self Love
But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy – for I am sad – and have cause.
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Eyes Myself Sad Stop View
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Advice Mindset One Liner
I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Break Up Heart Myself True Love
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
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
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Justice World
Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
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Establishment Man Woman Worth
Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
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Age Enough Learning Live
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
Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.
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Growth Man Perfection Right Virtue Weakness Woman
Like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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Beautiful Flower Rich Sacrifice Strength
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
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Government Husband Intellectual Woman
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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Affection Friendship Principle Time
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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End Mindset Strength Woman
As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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Liberty Politics Virtue Wisdom Woman
Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
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Affection Believe Love Man Myself Parents Play Relationship
Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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Mistake Philosophy
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
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
Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
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Himself Right
She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
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Herself Thinking Voice
A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the strange things that may possibly occur on the road.
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Man Possible Thinking View Woman
Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
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Devil Virtue

Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.

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Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.

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