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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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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
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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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She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies to be known in half an hour her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.
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Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
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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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while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
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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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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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. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.
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an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.
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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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Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
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To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.
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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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We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
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How little has situation to do with happiness.
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.
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