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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

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Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
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A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
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O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
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to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!
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such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
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But authors before they write should read.
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Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
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Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
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while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
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In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.
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I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.
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You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.
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