"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.197, First Avenue Editions
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