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• Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Integrity, Judging, Childhood

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.232, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Crime, Torn, Remorse

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.185, Prestwick House Inc

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• For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.

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  Iron, Sight, Self

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.127

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• After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Night, Causes, Generations

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.41

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• His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

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  Women, Abundance, Conversation

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2010). “Notes to the Complete Poetical Work of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being

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  Eras, Remember, Difficulty

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.80

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• One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Men, Pay, Life Or Death

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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