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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
• There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride…
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
• My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what…
• There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
• There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
• A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
• A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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