The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
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Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
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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!
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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
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The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl w...
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Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
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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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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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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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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, 'I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so go...
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It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
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A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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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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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all wome...
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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