Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentle, knowing all the ways of the family, interested in all its concerns, and peculiarly interested in herself, in every pleasure, every scheme of hers--...
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.
No! Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful.
Donvel je bio poznat po jagodama, koje su bile izgovor za poziv; ali nikakav izgovor nije bio potreban; ovu damu bi i kupus namamio jer je samo želela da nekuda ide.
Nije isključeno da čovek može živeti i bez igranja. Poznati su i slučajevi u kojima su mladići i devojke proveli mnoge mesece, a da ni na kakvom balu nisu bili, štaviše, ni duh ni telo nisu im zbog toga pretrpeli nikakvu štetu; ali kada se j...
I have observed...in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
No," said he, smiling, "that is no subject of regret at all. I have no pleasure in seeing my friends, unless I can believe myself fit to be seen.
It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
