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"Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything."

"As a general rule, it is highly desirable that ladies should keep their temper: a woman when she storms always makes herself ugly, and usually ridiculous also. There is nothing so odious to man as a v..."

"A low voice is an excellent thing in woman."

"Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I hold things in and put the fire out?"

"Virtues are formed by prayer.Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven."

"I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be?"

"The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and courage. The loyalty in this case is of two degrees or commitments: ..."

"I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some p..."

"With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly und..."

"There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale."