Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard Steele, Sr.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
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Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth
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The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents
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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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They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts
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The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it
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Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
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