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Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
Taught from infancy that beauty is womans sceptre, the mind shapes

Taught from 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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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. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Knowledge
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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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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. – George Jean Nathan

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I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty… in every form. – Joan Crawford

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We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences. – Carre Otis

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Filipinos dont wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty. – Imelda Marcos

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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. – Samuel Johnson

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