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.
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What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.