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

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" Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. "

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

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

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

" I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. "

" How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! "

" 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. "

" Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. "

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

" Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. "

" 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. "

" Those who do not complain are never pitied. "

" Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. "

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