Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Quote by Jane Austen

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

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

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one...

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one...

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or...

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or...

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something...

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something...

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 was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only...

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only...

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more,...

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more,...

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided...

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided...

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself....

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself....

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a...

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a...

I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the...

I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the...

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is...

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is...

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.