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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.  
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to becom...  
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness go...  
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from ju...  
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has...  
Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. ...  
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of...  
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faul...  
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise p...  
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wif...