Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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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...

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much...

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much...

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages...

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages...

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you...

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you...

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to...

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to...

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not...

Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not...

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work...

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work...

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever...

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever...