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" Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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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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" Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. "

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" If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. "

" If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. "

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

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

" It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "