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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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" 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. "

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

" Nobody minds having what is too good for them. "

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

" An artist cannot do anything slovenly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. "

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

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

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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. "

" I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage. "

" A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals. "

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

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

" 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. "