General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
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- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
- 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.
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.