Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
From Mary Wortley Montagu
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Life is too short for a long story.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
In short I will part with anything for you but you.
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
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