"No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
-Mary Wollstonecraft
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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.“
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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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"Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in."
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