In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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A man's errors are what make him amiable.
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I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.
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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
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I may as well say, what all men feel, that whilst our every amiable and very innocent representatives and senators at Washington are accomplis...
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A man's errors are what make him amiable
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Marriage
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.
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