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  1. He was, indeed, in a condition, in which, if reason had interposed, though only to advise, she might have received the answer which one Cle…
  2. His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
  3. In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really …
  4. Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.
  5. Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
  6. When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
  7. Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
  8. To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injusti…

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