I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

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To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

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A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

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Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

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It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

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A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

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The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

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Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

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Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

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