People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
From Samuel Richardson
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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