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People hate as they love, unreasonably.

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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

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Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables,and say of one of their own sex,'She is as vain as a man,' and they will have perfect reason. T...more

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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

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Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.

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Indeed, for my own part, though I have been repeatedly told by persons for whom I have the greatest respect, that Miss Brown is an insignificant chit,...more

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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

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Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

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... I regularly frequent St. George';s, Hanover Square, during the genteel marriage season; and though I have never seen the bridegroom's male friends...more

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A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes...more