Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

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He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

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But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

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If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

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We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

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Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

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