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Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?
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Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance
Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure.
A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.
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A verse may finde him, who a sermon flies
And turns delight into a sacrifice
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To write a verse or two is all the praise
That I can raise.
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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Born:
April 3, 1593
Died:
March 1, 1633
(aged 39)
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