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People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

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Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!
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To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.
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You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling
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I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.
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A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
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How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
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to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.
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No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.
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We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
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falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.
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. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
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Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
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Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
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Credulity is the sister of innocence.
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To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
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Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
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