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Credulity is the sister of innocence.
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When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.
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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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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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We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
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to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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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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To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
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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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Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
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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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This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.
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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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Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
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To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.
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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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falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.
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Childhood is never troubled with foresight.
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such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
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The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.
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