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

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" An artist cannot do anything slovenly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. "

Falling In Love

" 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. "

" There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. "

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

" It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? "

" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. "

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

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

" Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like. "

" To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. "

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

" I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. "

" My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. "

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