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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to ...more

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

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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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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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...it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. Consider -...more

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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickle...more

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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And y...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