"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.46, University of Chicago Press
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