Quote #33

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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  1. I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
  2. '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.'
  3. 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 …
  4. 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.
  5. We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
  6. 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, b…
  7. 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 …
  8. But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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