Hannah More - Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809)

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I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.

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The uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

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Expectation…quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

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'Won't that be delightful?' said she, twitching my arm, rather roughly, by way of recalling my attention, which however had seldom wandered.

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Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

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Parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

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Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

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I believe she would be jealous of a fine day, if her husband praised it.

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Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

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