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- It has all been most interesting. All
- Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. Diet
- No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions… Amused
- The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh… Attention
- I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever… Age
- A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. Face
- A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty. Aging
- Solitude begets whimsies. Begets
- You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself. Confidence
- But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me. Encouragement
- As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling. Care
- We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. Agents
- I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by… Absence
- A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. Ashamed
- I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. Chains
- It's all been very interesting. All
- Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the… Avoid
- And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last. Champagne
- To always be loved one must ever be agreeable. Agreeable
- The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife. Education
- I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what… All
- Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. Custom
- Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain… Acute
- Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity,… Agreeableness
- I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. Despise
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