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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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Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful,…
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I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins…
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A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,…
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Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it…
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In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law,…
— Elena Kagan
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I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening…
— Jane Austen
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The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from…
— David Platt
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I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very…
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