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| Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. |
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| All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter |
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| Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful |
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| An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience |
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| An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person |
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| Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. |
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| Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable |
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| As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. |
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| Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer. |
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| Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. |
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| Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. |
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| 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. |
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| Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. |
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| Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity |
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| Conspiracies no sooner should be formed than executed |
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| Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner |
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| Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. |
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| For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, / Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, / Poetic fields encompass me around, / And still I seem to tread on classic ground. |
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| Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. |
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