How success changes the opinion of men!
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The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.Maria Edgeworth
When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.
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Nature knows best, and she says, roar.
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And all the young ladies said that a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could anyway afford it.
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
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