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Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
Samuel Richardson
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Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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9.
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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10.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
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11.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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12.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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14.
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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15.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
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18.
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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19.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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20.
An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.
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21.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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22.
Calamity is the test of integrity.
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23.
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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24.
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
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25.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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28.
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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29.
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
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30.
The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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31.
Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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32.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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35.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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36.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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37.
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
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38.
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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39.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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40.
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson
41.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
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42.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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43.
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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44.
Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.
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45.
Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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46.
Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
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47.
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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48.
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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49.
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.
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50.
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.
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