Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.Samuel Richardson
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Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
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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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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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