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Flattery In Courtship Is The Highest Insolence, For Whilst It Pretends To Bestow On You More Than You Deserve, It Is Watching An Opportunity To Take From You What You Really Have.

Thoroughly To Unfold The Labyrinths Of The Human Mind Is An Arduous Task.... In Order To Dive Into Those Recesses And Lay Them Open To The Reader In A Striking And Intelligible Manner, 'tis Necessary To Assume A Certain Freedom In Writing, Not Strictly Perhaps Within The Limits Prescribed By Rules.

But In All Things Whether We Shall Make Only A Due Use Of The Liberties We Have Asked, Is Left Entirely To The Judicious Reader To Decide.

I Am None Of Those Nonsensical Fools That Can Whine And Make Romantic Love--i Leave That To Younger Brothers. Let My Estate Speakfor Me.

If Modesty And Candor Are Necessary To An Author In His Judgment Of His Own Works, No Less Are They In His Reader.