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The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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
Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
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Passionate Reflection Solitude
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Beautiful Learning Seek
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Human 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 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
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
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
Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
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Difference Greatness Man Nature
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
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.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Eyes Heart Lips Myself Word
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

Greatness Injury Moral Myself Power
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
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Deserve Ideas Knowledge Mortal Power
She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Herself Thinking Voice
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
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Hands Love Simplicity Truth
As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Liberty Politics Virtue Wisdom Woman

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