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Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Devil Virtue
Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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Character Woman
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
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Advice Mindset One Liner
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
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Justice Man Reason
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Heart Herself Photograph See
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
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Philosophy Truth Weakness
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
Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
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Time Woman
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
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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Greatness Injury Moral Myself Power
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
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
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End Mindset Strength 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
The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
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Herself Willing Woman
Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.
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Care Time Woman
They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
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Beyond Business End Fingers Ideas Lie Live Understanding

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