1. "Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education."
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Mary Shelley, FRANKENSTEIN
2. "Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
3. "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
4. "Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
5. "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
6. "I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
7. "How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
8. "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel..."
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
9. "There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
10. "the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein