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" A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. "
Happiness
Slight
Too
" A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. "
Natural
Silly
Ashamed
" Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. "
Nothing
Everything
Costs
" I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. "
World
More
Man
" 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. "
Look
Tis
Fools
" In short I will part with anything for you but you. "
Will
Romantic
Anything
" I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. "
Diamonds
Liberty
Prefer
" Life is too short for a long story. "
Life
Story
Short
" Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. "
Sick
Religion
Laugh
" 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. "
Trust
Virtue
Temptation
" No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. "
Entertainment
Pleasure
Reading
" No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. "
Fortune
Man
Modest
" People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. "
Plan
Think
Children
" Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. "
Think
Day
Death
" Solitude begets whimsies. "
Begets
Solitude
" The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. "
Time
Speak
Me
" There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. "
Ignorance
Happiness
Youth
" The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife. "
Good
Education
You
" Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring. "
Face
Passion
Time
" Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power. "
Duty
Riches
Word
" We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. "
She
Queen
Prisoner
" We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. "
Circumstances
Nothing
Romantic
" While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. "
Peace
Once
Mind
" Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. "
Manners
Men
Money
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