“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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.
