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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educ...
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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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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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And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? No, no; she has qualities which may be trusted; she will never lead any one really wrong; she will make no lasting blunder; where Emma errs once, she is in the right a hundred times.
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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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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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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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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A basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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A woman should never be trusted with money.
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Mrs. Hall, of Sherborne, was brought to bed yesterday of a dead child, some weeks before she was expected, owing to a...
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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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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt -- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.
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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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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
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