It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A lady's imagination is very rapid, it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a mo

A lady's imagination is very rapid, it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment

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

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

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    Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

    Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

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