If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMen’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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