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— Henry Fielding"It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place."
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When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
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