'Miss C_____'s father,' says Betty, 'had much better have bred his daughter a housewife, and then, mayhap, she might have got her a husband, w...
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I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love—I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speak for me.
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But this fully answered John's purpose toward Betty, for as she did not understand, she highly admired him; and he concluded by again repeatin...
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I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of ble...
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I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and ...
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And now behold the goddess seated on her throne ... receiving the adulation of her worshipper.... An adulation, which translated into plain En...
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I made him a low curtsy and thanked him for the honor he intended me, but told him I had no kind of ambition to be his upper servant.... I the...
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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity t...
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I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation re...
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The female part of the Cry (who had many of them often experienced a joyful self- approbation on being told by their admirers that all their p...
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The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
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I loved reading, and had a great desire of attaining knowledge; but whenever I asked questions of any kind whatsoever, I was always told, 'suc...
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His lordship pronounced his assent to take to wife his destined prey (in the words 'I will'), with a voice as audible as generally breaks fort...
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Miss C_____ is ... remarkably neat in her person and is uncommonly diligent in every part of useful economy.... She hath indeed under her fath...
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If matrimony be really beneficial to society, the custom that ... married women alone are allowed any claim to place, is as useful a piece of ...
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Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
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But I choose to think he is escaped from the possibility of falling into any future afflictions, and that neither the malice of his pretended ...
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The gentleman took three or four strides across the room, looked out of the window once or twice, and then turned to me with an awkward bow an...
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When the white frock is laid aside, the bigger miss seats herself in public at a ball, expecting every moment to be chosen by some man for a p...
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I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air a...
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If variety is capable of filling every hour of the married state with the highest joy, then might it be said that Lord and Lady Dellwyn were c...
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[T]he most artful method [of courtship] would be this, to tell her that what she doth not possess is useless and contemptible, that weakness a...
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There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properly be styled T...
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Thus the reader who hath most truly considered and digested the sentiments which he reads must be a man of the best taste and must find most p...
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For experience showed her that she had not, by marrying a man of a large fortune, obtained any great proportion of property which she could ca...
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Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one ...
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The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
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[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor stro...
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[F]or vanity disappointed will always find an enemy on whom to bestow the utmost hatred and dislike; and the woman who hath been thus entangle...
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