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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so viscious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived as noble and godlike.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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