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Mary Shelley

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Mary Shelley, born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. .


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Quote Left Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Quote Right
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Quote Left It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. Quote Right
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Quote Left I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. A rage, the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge in the other. Quote Right
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Quote Left Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Quote Right
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Quote Left My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs