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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

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Jesters do often prove prophets.

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The post of honour is a private station.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 1st, 1672

Died: June 17th, 1719

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