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- I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
- Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so…
- I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.
- I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a…
- Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her…
- Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.
- She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who…
- for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
- If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I…
- Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as…
- We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
- It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that…
- I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all…
- Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
- There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but…
- He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....
- If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
- I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
- If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
- The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object…
- To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...
- never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in…
- I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she…
- We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and…
- Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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