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"Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated."
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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."
"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."
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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."
"The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal."
"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."
"Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures."
"The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master."
"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends."
"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."
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