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

" There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. "

" I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. "

" 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. "

" Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. "

" No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment. "

" Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like. "

" Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. "

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

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

" They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. "

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" A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else. "

" Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. "

" My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. "

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