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• It has all been most interesting.
• Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss…
• The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises?…
• I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have…
• A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
• A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till…
• Solitude begets whimsies.
• You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
• But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
• As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.
• We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

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