The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.

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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.

-- Mary Wollstonecraft

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-- Mary Wollstonecraft

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