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Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for hap

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Men
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Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women
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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Freedom
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. – Anthony Storr

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Happiness

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotles Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. – Charles Van Doren

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Happiness

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw

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Happiness

My family didnt have a lot of money, and Im grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness. – Evangeline Lilly

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Happiness

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. – Mark Twain

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