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" Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. "

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" 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. "

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

" It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble. "

" Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. "

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" Every savage can dance. "

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

" Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people. "

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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. "

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

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" Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. "

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