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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 hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

By Samuel Richardson
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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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

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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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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

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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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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

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The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

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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 deceased.

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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 good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

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The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

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The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

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Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

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Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

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Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

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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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People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

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Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

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Nothing dries sooner than tears.

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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

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Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

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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 it is entered into with mutual affection.

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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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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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