“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
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“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way”
“Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion”
“It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble”
“The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.””
“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage”
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of ”
“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”
“There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them”
“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable”
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance”
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does”
“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be”
“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love”