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“When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (1752). “The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella: In Two Volumes”, p.163
#Action Quotes
#Satirist Quotes
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“Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.136
#Hate Quotes
#Common Quotes
#Persons Quotes
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“There is no logic like the logic of the heart.”
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Charlotte Lennox
#Heart Quotes
#Logic Quotes
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“It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (1761). “Henrietta”, p.102
#Justice Quotes
#Easy Quotes
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“We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (1761). “Henrietta”, p.19
#Truth Quotes
#Lying Quotes
#Deceived Quotes
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“The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.190
#Motivation Quotes
#Examination Quotes
#Bears Quotes
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“Whatever is done by design is always overdone.”
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Charlotte Lennox
#Design Quotes
#Done Quotes
#Planning Quotes
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“Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.”
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Charlotte Lennox
#Sometimes Quotes
#Sincerity Quotes
#Taxes Quotes
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“Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (1805). “Henrietta: Embellished with superb engravings”, p.157
#Prejudice Quotes
#Truth Is Quotes
#Weak Quotes
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“What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.112
#Vanity Quotes
#Generosity Quotes
#Giving Quotes
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“In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Mrs.charlotte lennox. (1762). “Sophia”, p.139
#Forgiveness Quotes
#Revenge Quotes
#Enemy Quotes
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“A hero in one age will be a hero in another.”
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Charlotte Lennox
#Hero Quotes
#Age Quotes
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“The law has no power over heroes.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (2006). “The Female Quixote: Easyread Edition”, p.198, ReadHowYouWant.com
#Hero Quotes
#Power Quotes
#Law Quotes
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“When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.97
#Innocence Quotes
#Guilty Quotes
#Innocent Quotes
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“The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (2006). “The Female Quixote: Easyread Edition”, p.330, ReadHowYouWant.com
#Inspirational Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Silence Quotes
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“The life of a good man is a continual prayer.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (2008). “Euphemia”, p.477, Broadview Press
#Prayer Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Good Man Quotes
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“Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.”
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Charlotte Lennox
#Years Quotes
#May Quotes
#Infamous Quotes
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“No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.128
#Envy Quotes
#Virtue Quotes
#Envious Quotes
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“Truth is not always injured by fiction.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (1820). “The female Quixote; or, The adventures of Arabella”, p.261
#Fiction Quotes
#Literature Quotes
#Truth Is Quotes
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“It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.”
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Charlotte Lennox
Source : Charlotte Lennox (2009). “The Female Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.348, ReadHowYouWant.com
#Important Quotes
#Fiction Quotes
#Corruption Quotes
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