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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

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

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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.

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.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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

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.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

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

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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