The pistol and dagger may as easily be made the auxiliaries… - William Godwin

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The pistol and dagger may as easily be made the auxiliaries of vice, as of virtue.

William Godwin

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William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher, educationalist, novelist, historian and biographer. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and the first modern proponent of anarchism. He was the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, father of Mary Shelley and father-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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