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

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

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...

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

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...

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and...

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and...

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less...

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less...

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...

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will...

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will...

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

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

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

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...

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...

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

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.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

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

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