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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your e...more

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking ...more

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But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

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Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good com...more

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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance o...more