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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

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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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Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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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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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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