It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

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 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...

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.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally...

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally...

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 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...

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly...

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly...

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly...

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly...

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...

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation,...

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation,...

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...

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...

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...

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords...

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords...

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will...

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will...

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not...

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not...