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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

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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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Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

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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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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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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

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The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 19th, 1689

Died: July 4th, 1761

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