"Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands."
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"In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity."
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"Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased."
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"We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide."
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"Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements."
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"He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces."
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"Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow."
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"The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents."
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"Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit."
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"There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful."
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"Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients."
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"An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty."
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"Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous."
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"The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments."
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"You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him."
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"It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good."
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"Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells."
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"Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice."
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"Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied."
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