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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

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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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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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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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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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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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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

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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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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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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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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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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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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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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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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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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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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

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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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I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

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The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

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