It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness.
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
“Only a novel”… in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary.