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Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. ”
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. ”
The things which I have seen I now can see no more. ”
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars. ”
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious. ”
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. ”
Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation. ”
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. ”
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia. ”
The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me. ”