"No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
-Mary Wollstonecraft
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"In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.“
-Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense."
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"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."
-Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Virtue can only flourish among equals."
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"If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test."
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"Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."
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