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"Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult."
Samuel Johnson / Johnsoniana. Hannah More. 467.
Johnsoniana. Hannah More. 467.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!"
Hannah More / Sensibility.
Sensibility.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs."
Hannah More / Sensibility.
Sensibility.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"In men this blunder still you find,-- All think their little set mankind."
Hannah More / Florio. Part i.
Florio. Part i.
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"Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes."
Hannah More / Florio. Part i.
Florio. Part i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain