Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
JOSEPH ADDISONOur delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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