A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
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