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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

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

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.