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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberat...more

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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subseq...more

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

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To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot a...more

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar befor...more

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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. I detest jargon of ...more

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…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect