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People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Life is too short for a long story.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

Orang biasanya mendidik anak-anak mereka ketika mereka membangun rumah mereka, menurut beberapa rencana yang mereka anggap indah, tanpa mempertimbangkan apakah itu sesuai dengan tujuan yang mereka rancang.

Orang-orang cantik yang Anda bicarakan, saya sendiri terkadang menghibur diri saya sendiri, tetapi apakah tidak mungkin dialihkan dengan apa yang dibenci seseorang? Saya bisa menertawakan sebuah pertunjukan boneka, pada saat yang sama saya tahu tidak ada apa pun di dalamnya yang layak saya perhatikan atau perhatikan.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Kadang-kadang saya memberi diri saya nasihat yang mengagumkan, tetapi saya tidak mampu menerimanya.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.