The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it
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Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.Richard Steele
To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior to love her is a liberal education.
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There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
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Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour to love her was a liberal education.
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