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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

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Every savage can dance.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: December 16th, 1775

Died: July 18th, 1817

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