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Quotation from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“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, Vol. I, Ch. III (1818) / Ch. 4 (1831) (1831 text)
Victor interrupts his narrative to warn Walton, turning his story into a moral lesson about overreaching.
Citation: "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" — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol. I, Ch. III (1818) / Ch. 4 (1831) (1831 text). (id frankenstein-q6)
Portrait: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Richard Rothwell, Public domain.
