There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of...

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of...

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one...

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one...

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many...

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many...

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...

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,...

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

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.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

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...

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

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

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

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...

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

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.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

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

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

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...