O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
From Samuel Richardson
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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