Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

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We can all begin freely � a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

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Success supposes endeavour.

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The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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