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.
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.
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