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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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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…
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need…
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Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see…
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If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
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To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear…
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I feel like I'm that new age. Real futuristic grimy shit. But it's like, now niggas will step up to where you're…
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It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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