Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTFew, 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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Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
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Errors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
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The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.
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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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They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
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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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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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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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If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.
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And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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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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Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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