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

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady...

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady...

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others...

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others...

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to...

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to...

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes,...

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes,...

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our...

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our...

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be...

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be...

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called...

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called...

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in...

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in...

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be...

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be...

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small...

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small...

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your...

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your...

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages,...

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages,...

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on...

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on...