"Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint












This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

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"There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
"Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet
"It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.
"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
"I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.
"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
"The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
"You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till ...
"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 tak...
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
"It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood wi...
"Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.
"Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to ...