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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

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

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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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Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

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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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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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We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

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Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 19th, 1689

Died: July 4th, 1761

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