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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

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Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.
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It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.
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When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.
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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
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Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.
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Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.
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Lady ---- is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one for it is never said, from whence.
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The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.
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