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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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