People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves. Seagull
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire. Northanger Abbey
The body is a source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food; and is also liable to diseases which overtake and impede us in the search after truth: and by filling us so full of loves, and lusts, and fears, and fancies, and idols, and every sort of folly, prevents our ever having, as people say, so much as a thought. The Trials Of Socrates
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. Essays
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