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

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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

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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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

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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

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

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

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

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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

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

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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

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

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

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