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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling

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while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
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I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.
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I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.
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A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
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To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!
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We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
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I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.
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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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But authors before they write should read.
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Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
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Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
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There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!
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it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
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. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
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don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.
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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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Credulity is the sister of innocence.
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
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To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
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