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What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for! And one hal...

By Samuel Richardson
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

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The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl w...

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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the dece...

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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, 'I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so go...

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The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the inte...

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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to live single, in ...

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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 b...

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Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when...

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If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all wome...

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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that o...

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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften the manners. It gives a delicate turn to the ima...

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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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Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

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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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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

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Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

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We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

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Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

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Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

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Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

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