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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride. - [Pride] Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others. - [Superstition] That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity. - [Cuckoos] The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex. - [Curiosity] The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility. - [Humility] The wisest among us is a fool in some things. - [Wisdom] There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations. - [Matrimony] Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause. - [Accusation] What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder? - [Gambling] What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty? - [Voluptuousness] Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating. - [Fear] Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit. - [Credulity] Such a plot must have a woman in it. - Sir Charles Grandison (vol. I, letter 24) [Women] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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