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The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
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Nature Respect Violence
Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
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Dignity Man Oppression Woman
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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Beginning Education People Teaching Thinking Young
The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.
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Man Struggle Virtue
Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
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Heart Herself Photograph See
A little patience, and all will be over.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
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Feeling Heart Myself Wasted Time
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
All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
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Equality Establishment Man Power Virtue Weakness
It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
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Impossible Power Self Love 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
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
True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
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Feeling Genius Soul True Virtue
It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
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Appearance Necessary Principle Search Simplicity
The beginning is always today.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

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