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" Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. "
Jane Austen
Busy
Quick
Life
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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. "
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" 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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" Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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May
" For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? "
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" Nobody minds having what is too good for them. "
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Them
Minds
" 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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Will
Rest
" A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. "
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Ease
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" Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. "
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" A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. "
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Imagination
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" What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. "
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Soon
Cannot
" Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. "
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Guilt
" A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. "
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See
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