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Mary Shelley
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
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"Learn from me,
if not by my precepts,
at least by my example,
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 become greater
than his nature will allow."
(Frankenstein)
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