An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
From Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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.
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