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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.