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. Mansfield Park
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is -- a vice? Twilight of the Idols
For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us. Book III
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich. Oscariana
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