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“It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.”

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

“I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!”