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"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."
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"Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal."
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
"I don't know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman - your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don't know what to make of it."
"All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers."
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"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."
"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."
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