Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
From Samuel Richardson
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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