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

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" There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. "

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" Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. "

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

" 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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" Is not general incivility the very essence of love? "

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" Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. "

" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. "

" One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. "

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" Every savage can dance. "

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" Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. "

" 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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" 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. "