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"Love, upon occasion, will draw an elephant through a key-hole."

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"Calamity is the test of integrity."

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"A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive."

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"A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun."

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"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."

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"Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause"

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"For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse."

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"Good men must be affectionate men."

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"As long as my property taxes are high, I have to raise rents or make adjustments."

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"The thing you don't get looking at brochures and stats is what the school is really like,"

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"Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it."

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"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."

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"It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept."

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"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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"A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates."

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"A man may keep a woman, but not his estate."

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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."

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"A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope."

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"All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest."

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"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."

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"Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense."

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