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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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Choice Deep Evil Happiness Man Mistake Philosophy
Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
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Imagination Philosophy
They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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Result Slave
Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Character Woman
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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Justice World
The beginning is always today.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner
I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.
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Character Human Myself Sex Virtue
I like to use significant words.
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Myself Word
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
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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Hands Love Simplicity Truth
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
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
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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Education Life Man Mistake Perfection Preparation View
A little patience, and all will be over.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
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
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
I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
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Eyes Heart Lips Myself Word
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Heart Herself Photograph See
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Blessing Independence Life Live Secure Virtue
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
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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Friendship True Love
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 Happiness Heart Mindset People World
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
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
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Desire Knowledge Life Ourselves
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.
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Act Goodness Man Philosophy Secure Woman
Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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Passionate Reflection Solitude

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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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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