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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."
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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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