The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, … - Samuel Richardson

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My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!

Samuel Richardson

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Difference, Differences, Equal, Giving, Men, Women

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The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

Heart, Character, Interesting, Nature, Letters, Undecided

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Betrayed, Choices, False, Husband, Inconsiderate, Rakes

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

Beginning, Mean, Men, Persuasions, Sex, Thosewho

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Issues, Free Will, Pursuit, Right, Nothing

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Temptation, Goodness, Be Good, Contrary, Good

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A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

Chiefs, Enemy, Left, Remedy, Say, Should

Jostein Gaarder

Superstitious. " What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?

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Henry Miller

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Bad, Clap, Hope, Inspirational, Part, Spiritual

Wesley Snipes

There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality and high quality work. But you're always concerned that the time demands on television will interrupt or interfere with your film work.

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Marisa Tomei

Brother, Class, Father, Mother, Taking, West