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Quotes from A Vindication of the Rights of Men — Mary Wollstonecraft

1759–1797 England

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Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.

A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)

It may be confidently asserted that no man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. And the desire of rectifying these mistakes, is the noble ambition of an enlightened understanding, the impulse of feelings that Philosophy invigorates.

A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)

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