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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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...

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

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...

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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...

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay...

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay...

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

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...

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

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,...

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...

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

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

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

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...

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.

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We...

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We...

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...

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother ... Oh, how...

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother ... Oh, how...