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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. ”
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves. ”
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. ”
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. ”
We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms. ”
I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years. ”
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. ”
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. ”
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. ”
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ”