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Embittering childhood with needless restraint is cruel

Drawn from what Mary Wollstonecraft said

happiness
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happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.

What Mary Wollstonecraft actually said

  1. Mary Wollstonecraft English moral and political philosopher (1759 to 1797)
    But yet a rigid style of behaviour is by no means to be adopted; on the contrary, I wish to remark, that it is only in the years of childhood that the happiness of a human being depends entirely on others—and to embitter those years by needless restraint is cruel.

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