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" What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. "

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" Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. "

" Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. "

" To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. "

" It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. "

" One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. "

" No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. "

" Is not general incivility the very essence of love? "

" One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. "

" I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. "

" A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. "

" Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. "

" I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. "

" Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. "

" Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. "

" They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. "

" I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. "

" One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. "

" We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. "

" We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. "

" General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. "

" From politics, it was an easy step to silence. "

" There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. "

" Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. "

" Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. "

" Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. "

" There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. "

" I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage. "

" Those who do not complain are never pitied. "

" Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. "