“We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft, book Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letter 19
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)

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British writer and philosopher 1759–1797

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