If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nob...

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

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In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.

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