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" Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. "

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" One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. "

" For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? "

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

" They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. "

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

" One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. "

" There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. "

" Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. "