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One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just, but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.