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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Taught from their infancy that beauty is womans sceptre the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage only seeks to adorn its prison.
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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
- Mary Wollstonecraft