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A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the sub...more

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But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fai...more

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−inform...more

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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.