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All Quotes Collection
"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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"A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer."
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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
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"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
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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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"Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain."
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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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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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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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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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"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
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"What is right to be done cannot be done too soon."
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"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality."
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"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."
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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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"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
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"There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions."
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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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"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
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"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
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"My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."
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