"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.24, Wordsworth Editions
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