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Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."…

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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men…
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure…
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not…
Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form…
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the…
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and…
At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone...…

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Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen… — Unknown Author

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