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"Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous."
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"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."

"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."

"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."

"When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther."
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"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant."


"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do."


"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."


"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."


"To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!"


"A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive."


"The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications."
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