'Miss C_____'s father,' says Betty, 'had much better have bred his daughter a housewife, and then, mayhap, she might have got her a husband, w...
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I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love—I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speak for me.
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I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of ble...
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I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and ...
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I think it is a kind of subject matter that needed exploring ... the identity of the single woman had not caught up with what was happening. Which was that a lot of perfectly attractive, intelligent, nice, normal girls in their 30s had decided not to get married for very good reasons. And they were paralyzed somewhere between the Cosmo girls, you know with the good life and their own flat and car and independence and lots of fun, and haunted by this horrible image of ... the tragic spinster who ends up dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by a dog.
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I made him a low curtsy and thanked him for the honor he intended me, but told him I had no kind of ambition to be his upper servant.... I the...
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And now behold the goddess seated on her throne ... receiving the adulation of her worshipper.... An adulation, which translated into plain En...
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I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation re...
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage
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I loved reading, and had a great desire of attaining knowledge; but whenever I asked questions of any kind whatsoever, I was always told, 'suc...
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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity t...
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The female part of the Cry (who had many of them often experienced a joyful self- approbation on being told by their admirers that all their p...
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
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The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
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His lordship pronounced his assent to take to wife his destined prey (in the words 'I will'), with a voice as audible as generally breaks fort...
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Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.
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Miss C_____ is ... remarkably neat in her person and is uncommonly diligent in every part of useful economy.... She hath indeed under her fath...
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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
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But I choose to think he is escaped from the possibility of falling into any future afflictions, and that neither the malice of his pretended ...
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The gentleman took three or four strides across the room, looked out of the window once or twice, and then turned to me with an awkward bow an...
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Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
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If variety is capable of filling every hour of the married state with the highest joy, then might it be said that Lord and Lady Dellwyn were c...
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I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air a...
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When the white frock is laid aside, the bigger miss seats herself in public at a ball, expecting every moment to be chosen by some man for a p...
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properly be styled T...
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If matrimony be really beneficial to society, the custom that ... married women alone are allowed any claim to place, is as useful a piece of ...
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But this fully answered John's purpose toward Betty, for as she did not understand, she highly admired him; and he concluded by again repeatin...
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