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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years may infamous
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
important fiction corruption
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
hero power law
The law has no power over heroes.
innocence guilty innocent
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
inspirational men silence
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
prayer men good-man
The life of a good man is a continual prayer.
envy virtue envious
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
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.
hate common persons
Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
sometimes sincerity taxes
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
design done planning
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
motivation examination bears
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
justice easy inclination
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
heart logic
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.