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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured."

"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."
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