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" We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. "
Jane Austen
Any
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" Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? "
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" Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. "
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" Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. "
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" Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. "
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Done
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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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" 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. "
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" It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. "
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" I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life. "
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Life
" They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. "
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" What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. "
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" 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. "
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" A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. "
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