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“A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.”
“How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.”
“Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.”
“People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.”
“The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.”
“Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.”
“A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.”
“The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.”
“Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.”
“It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.”
“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.”
“Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.”
“All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.”
“Calamity is the test of integrity.”
“Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.”
“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.”
“The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.”
“Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.”
“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.”
“People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.”