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Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

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The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

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There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

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Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

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Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

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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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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

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A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

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Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

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There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

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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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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

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Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

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We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

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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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