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- Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
- Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of…
- It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
- If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be…
- Fear guides more than gratitude.
- As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the…
- So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
- To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
- The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
- They liked the book better the more it made them cry.
- I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end…
- I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
- The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore,…
- In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
- In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
- Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
- Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those…
- I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued…
- The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
- As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
- As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.
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