Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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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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