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“Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions, and enable the imagination to enlarge the object and make it the most desirable.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“...who sacrifices pleasure when it is within the grasp, whose mind has not been opened and strengthened by adversity, or the pursuit of knowledge goaded on by necessity?
Happy is it when people have the cares of life to struggle with; for these struggles prevent their becoming a prey to enervating vices, merely from idleness!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman & A Vindication of the Rights of Men: And A Vindication of the Rights of Men

“Most of the evils of life arise from a desire of present enjoyment that outruns itself.”
― Mary Wollstonecfaft, A Vindication of the rights of Woman

“...whoever the devil finds idle he will employ. And what but habitual idleness can hereditary wealth and titles produce?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman & A Vindication of the Rights of Men: And A Vindication of the Rights of Men