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From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Eagles, Wings, Birth
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.10
From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.