As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
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There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
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Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
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Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
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