It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
I can always live by my pen.
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Angry people are not always wise.
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
one day in the country is exactly like another.
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Without music, life would be a blank to me.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
I should infinitely prefer a book.
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
How much I love every thing that is decided and open!
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