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Since, replied Arabella, that uneasiness has neither made you thinner, nor paler, I don't think you ought to be pitied...
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
The Empire of Love, said she, like the Empire of Honour is govern'd by Laws of its own, which have no Dependence upon, or Relation to any other.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
For if I knew how to please you, I would never, if I could help it, offend.
It has always been the Rule of my Life, not to justify any Words or Actions because they are mine.
For Heaven's sake, Cousin, resumed Arabella, laughing, how have you spent your Time; and to what Studies have you devoted all your Hours, that you could find none to spare for the Perusal of Books from which all useful Knowlege may be drawn; which give us the most shining Examples of Generosity, Courage, Virtue, and Love; which regulate our Actions, form our Manners, and inspire us with a noble Desire of emulating those great, heroic, and virtuous Actions, which made those Persons so glorious in their Age, and so worthy Imitation in ours?
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
The law has no power over heroes.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
That a man who had once betrayed him, it would be an error in policy ever to trust again.
Lady Bella went up to her apartment, and betook herself to her Books, which supplied the place of all company to her.
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
