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Remedial fears. Muscular tears.

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Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse:...

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

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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.

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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

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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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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

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

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

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

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

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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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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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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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

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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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

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