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Silly things cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.
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There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
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She was not a woman of many words: for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas...
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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.
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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! — How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! — How much of good or evil must be done by him!
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
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Born:
December 16, 1775
Died:
July 18, 1817
(aged 41)
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