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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 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
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
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
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
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
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Justice Man Reason
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
A little patience, and all will be over.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
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
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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Dream Freedom Myself
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
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
I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Break Up Heart Myself True Love
Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.
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Equality Opinion Ourselves
Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Nature Respect Violence

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.

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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.

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