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

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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. "

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

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" An artist cannot do anything slovenly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. "

" Every savage can dance. "

" There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. "

" Those who do not complain are never pitied. "

" Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. "

" 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. "

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