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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

When liberty returns, I will return.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Snobbery? But it’s only a form of despair.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.