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SENTIMENT.--How much fine sentiment there is wasted in our strange world!
I have seen a young lady in raptures of admiration over a flower which
was to deck her hair in the ball-room, who would turn away with a look of
loathing from the proffered kiss of her baby brother; and I have heard
lovely lips, all wreathed in smiles, and breathing tones of joy over a
pretty shell, a shining insect, or even a gay ribbon, say cold and cruel
words to the best friend, ay, the _mother_, who was wearing her life out
to promote the happiness of her ungrateful daughter.
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MARRIAGE.--When a man of sense comes to marry, it is a companion whom
he wants, and not an artist. It is not merely a creature who can paint,
play, dress, and dance--it is a being who can comfort and console him.
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BLUSHING.--Blushing in the male sex is too frequently and constantly
regarded as a proof of guiltiness: it is a proof of sensibility and
fear of disrepute, by whatever incident called forth; but except in so
far as fear of being thought guilty is proof, it affords no proof of
the existence of the object by the idea of which the apprehension is
excited.--_Bentham._
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Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible
enemy to fine faces than the small pox.--_Hughes._
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At twenty years of ago the will reigns, at thirty the wit, at forty the
judgment.--_Grattan._
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Authors in France seldom speak ill of each other, unless they have a
personal pique. Authors in England seldom speak well of each other,
unless they have a personal friendship.--_Pope._
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