Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
From Jane Austen
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 the mouths of other people.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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