Date: 1766
"My fancy draws that harmless groupe as listening to every line of this with great composure."
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Date: 1766
"And let me tell you, Sir, that I give you no small treasure, she has been celebrated for beauty it is true, but that is not my meaning, I give you up a treasure in her mind."
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Date: 1766
"Perhaps I may catch up even one from the gulph, and that will be great gain; for is there upon earth a gem so precious as the human soul?"
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Date: 1766
Dimples may make an absolute conquest of some man's heart
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Date: 1766
A father may think it his duty to conquer faults in his child "which, when strengthened by time and habit, must prove incorrigible"
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Date: 1766
One "might find it necessary to his ease, to conquer passions which he durst not indulge"
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Date: 1766
"Their insensibility excited my highest compassion, and blotted my own uneasiness a while from my mind."
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Date: 1766
"[I]t was a truth her reason could more easily perceive, than her heart feel, for it was steeled by habit"
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Date: 1766
One may suffer in the interior of his or her heart by the decease of another
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Date: 1766
"We should then find that creatures, whose souls are held as dross, only wanted the hand of a refiner; we should then find that wretches, now stuck up for long tortures, lest luxury should feel a momentary pang, might, if properly treated, serve to sinew the state in times of danger."
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