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Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
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I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
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It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?
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Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!
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Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.
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Lady Hester Stanhope
Born:
1776
Died:
1839
(aged 63)
Bio:
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope was a British socialite, adventurer and traveler. Her archaeological expedition to Ashkelon in 1815 is considered the first modern excavation in the history of Holy Land archeology.
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