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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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For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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Love, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Death, like virtue, has its degrees.
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Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.
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Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
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Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy
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Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very…
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean…
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral…
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Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.
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