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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride…
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before…
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
— Herman Melville
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly…
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who…
— Jane Austen
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If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74%…
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