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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

To bestow on your fellow men is a Godlike attribute--So indeed it is and as such not one fit for mortality;--the giver, like Adam and Prometheus, must pay the penalty of rising above his nature by being the martyr of his own excellence.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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