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"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

"Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.""You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. Theyare my old friends. I have heard you mention them with considerationthese last twenty years at least."

"Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
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"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant."


"The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master."


"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do."


"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."


"Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures."


"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."


"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
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