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Mary Wollstonecraft has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose…
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the…
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
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The beginning is always today.
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The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind…
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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught…
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity,…
— Antoine Rivarol
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no…
— P T Barnum
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Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.
— Winston Churchill
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He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly
— Steven Erikson
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
— E. W. Howe
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