"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Betty T. Bennett (1980). “The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: A part of the elect.”, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1980-c1988.
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