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• But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to…
• A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
• I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak…
• Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect…
• Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
• Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.
• To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
• Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
• I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that…
• He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
• A man is so in the way in the house.
• The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

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