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Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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
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
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
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
I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
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Break Up Heart Myself True Love
As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
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Liberty Politics Virtue Wisdom 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
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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Philosophy Truth Weakness
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
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Justice Man Reason
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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Education Live Man Opinion Woman Worth
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 honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Herself Willing 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
We must all be in love once in our lives.
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Life Love Ourselves
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

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

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