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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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.

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

She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing...

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

"I shall soon be rested," said Fanny; "to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."

it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.