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Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

— George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Poetical Works (1801)

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None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair:
But Love can hope, where Reason would despair.

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Women, like princes, find few real friends.

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How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

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Seek to be good, but aim not to be great;
A woman’s noblest station is retreat.

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Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain:
The heart can ne'er a transport know,
That never feels a pain.

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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
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