There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
From Jane Austen
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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