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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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I love man as my fellow but his scepter real or usurped extends not to me unless the reason of an individual demands my homage and even then the submission is to reason and not to man.
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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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