Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

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There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

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The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

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There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

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He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

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