Mary Wollstonecraft quotes - page 4

The more I see of the world, the more I am convinced that civilisation is a blessing not sufficiently estimated by those who have not traced its progress; for it not only refines our enjoyments, but produces a variety which enables us to retain the primitive delicacy of our sensations. Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness, unless continual novelty serve as a substitute for the imagination, which, being impossible, it was to this weariness, I suppose, that Solomon alluded when he declared that there was nothing new under the sun! (Mary Wollstonecraft)

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft - Image
Occupation: English Writer
Born: April 27, 1759
Died: September 10, 1797
Quotes count: 76
Wikipedia: Mary Wollstonecraft

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