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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
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In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
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Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
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