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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Hannah More
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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world and by their noise to multiply their numbers.
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If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
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If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.
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The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.
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It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
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The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
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the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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