“ There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves. ”
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“ Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. ”
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“ Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. ”
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“ People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with. ”
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“ To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. ”
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“ To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. ”
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“ Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. ”
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“ Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. ”
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“ Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. ”
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“ To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband! ”
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“ All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children. ”
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“ A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. ”
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“ Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. ”
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“ The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. ”
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“ Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause. ”
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“ Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. ”
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“ To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband! ”
- Samuel Richardson- Copy
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“ Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause. ”
- Samuel Richardson- Copy
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“ The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. ”
- Samuel Richardson- Copy
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“ Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? ”
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“ A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates. ”
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