"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.61
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