Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Quote by Jane Austen

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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you...

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you...

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at...

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,...

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has...

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has...

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in...

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in...

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits,...

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits,...

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own...

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own...

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to...

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is...

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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

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