Charlotte Lennox
Charlotte Lennox
Charlotte Lennox, née Ramsaywas a Scottish author and poet. She is most remembered now as the author of The Female Quixote and for her association with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and Samuel Richardson, but she had a long career and wrote poetry, prose, and drama...
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important fiction corruption
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
envy virtue envious
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
hate common persons
Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
heart logic
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
action censure satirist
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
truth lying deceived
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
forgiveness revenge enemy
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
hero age
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
justice easy inclination
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
motivation examination bears
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
design done planning
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
sometimes sincerity taxes
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
prejudice truth-is weak
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
vanity giving generosity
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.