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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

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There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

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