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How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
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Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
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In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow
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Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
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