A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
From Jane Austen
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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