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FRANK's Components of Creativity
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the...
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I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.Source:...
General notions are generally wrong.Source: From an Internet collection of...
Life is too short for a long story.Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me and be quiet. More about this quote
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and...
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the...
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without...
Satire should, like a polished razor keen,Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or...
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful,...
I don't say 'tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of...
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide --In part she is to blame that has been tried:He comes too near that...
It is eleven years since I have seen my figure in a glass. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable, I...
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Source: -- Mary...
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above...
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless...
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.Source: letter to James Steuart, July...
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided...
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.Source: In The Ultimate Success...
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