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My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.

My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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  3. the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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  19. What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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  22. Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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