There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness And decision of character. I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it.
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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.William Hazlitt
Women have often more of what is called good sense then men. They have fewer pretensions are less implicated in theories and judge of objects more from their immediate and involuntary impression on the mind, and, therefore, more truly and naturally.
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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Man is an individual animal with narrow faculties, but infinite desires, which he is anxious to concentrate in some one object within the grasp of his imagination, and where, if he cannot be all that he wishes himself, he may at least contemplate his own pride, vanity, and passions, displayed in their most extravagant dimensions in a being no bigger and no better than himself.
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