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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
She attracted him more than he liked.
A woman's imagination is very fast, it jumps from the admiration of love and from love to marriage in but a moment.
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
I think you are capable of great nobility and kindness towards a wife, I believe you capable of every sacrifice and of great tollerance in conjugal life, until, you have an end, I mean to say that the woman you love lives and lives for you. I only lay claim to one priviledge of my sex (and it is not an enviable priviledge, it is not the case for you to have it for yourselves) and it is that of longer than when life and hope have gone.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.