A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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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.
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
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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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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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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.
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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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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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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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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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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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.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
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