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

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

" From politics, it was an easy step to silence. "

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

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" 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. "

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" My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. "

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