"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.10
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