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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes: My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
         

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.


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This page presents the quote "My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.". Author of this quote is Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. This quote is about knowledge, blindness, left, thirst, struggle, father, children,.