“The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”
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Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), "Matrimony", p. 100
Context: Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state. Her sphere of action is not large, and if she is not taught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and pursuits! What little arts engross and narrow her mind!
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François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Rien n'empêche tant d'être naturel que l'envie de le paraître.
Maxim 431.
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John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 October 1780), "The Works of John Adams" http://books.google.com/books?id=j9NKAAAAYAAJ&dq=John%20Adams%20works&pg=PA511#v=onepage&q&f=false, vol 9, p. 511 <br class="br">1780s
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Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Der Verstandesmensch verhöhnt nichts so bitter als den Edelmut, dessen er sich nicht fähig fühlt.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 20.
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A Moosehead Journal.
Literary Essays, vol. I (1864-1890)
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