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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. "

" Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. "

" We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. "

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

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

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

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