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

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

" 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. "

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

" Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

" Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. "

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

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

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

" I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. "

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

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