I'll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
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. . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!
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If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation
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If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
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And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections?
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When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one's anger.
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There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
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But he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.
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