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" I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. "

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" Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. "

" Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. "

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

" 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. "

" Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. "

" There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. "

" To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. "

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

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

" To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. "

" 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. "

" My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. "

" Every savage can dance. "

" An artist cannot do anything slovenly. "

" Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. "

" The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. "

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

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