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Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant.

man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biassed by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in hew own village, she must seek them abroad

No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared.