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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
Self confidence is the ground stone of success
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
Be just before you are generous.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
The throne we honour is the people's choice.
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
I was struck all on a heap.
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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