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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
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There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
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There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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