I do not know,' said the man, 'what the custom of the Engli… - Mary Wollstonecraft

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I do not know,' said the man, 'what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist. She was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and married Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Pen Names: Mr. Cresswick

Alternative Names: Mary Godwin • Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

I do not know,' said the man, 'what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains. - Mary Wollstonecraft

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