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| Alas, could experience be bought for gold! | 1 |
| Amiable people, while they are more liable to imposition in casual contact with the world, yet radiate so much of mental sunshine that they are reflected in all appreciative hearts. | 2 |
| Audacity as against modesty will win the battle over most men. | 3 |
| Conceited people are never without a certain degree of harmless satisfaction wherewith to flavor the waters of life. | 4 |
| Delicacy is the parent of decency. | 5 |
| Dignity and pride are of too near relationship for intermarriage. | 6 |
| Discreet women have sometimes neither eyes nor ears. | 7 |
| Employment and ennui are simply incompatible. | 8 |
| Familiarity and satiety are twins. | 9 |
| Great culture is often betokened by great simplicity. | 10 |
| Heartlessness and fascination, in about equal quantities, constitute the receipt for forming the character of a coquette. | 11 |
| If ever I am an instructress, it will be to learn more than to teach. | 12 |
| Intrigue is a court distemper. | 13 |
| It is a shrewd device to pretend we have some one unimportant fault,—it overshadows so many serious defects. | 14 |
| It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. | 15 |
| It requires a great deal of poetry to gild the pill of poverty, and then it will pass current only in theory; the reality is a dead failure. | 16 |
| Nothing so truly becomes feminine beauty as simplicity. | 17 |
| One crime is everything; two nothing. | 18 |
| Perseverance and audacity generally win. | 19 |
| Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fancy. | 20 |
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| Some people regret that they have poor memories. Alas! it is much more difficult to forget. | 21 |
| Steel assassinates; the passions kill. | 22 |
| The anticipation of evil courts evil. | 23 |
| The hen of our neighbor appears to us a goose, says the Oriental proverb. | 24 |
| The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow. | 25 |
| There are sins of omission as well as those of commission. | 26 |
| There is a vein of inconsistency in every woman’s heart, within whose portals love hath entered. | 27 |
| There is but one antidote for coquetry,—true love. | 28 |
| There is but one book for genius,—nature. | 29 |
| They teach us to dance; O that they could teach us to blush, did it cost a guinea a glow! | 30 |
| Very few men understand the true significance of contentment; women alone illustrate it. | 31 |
| We are so desirous of vengeance that people often offend us by not giving offence. | 32 |
| We believe at once in evil; we only believe in good upon reflection. Is not this sad? | 33 |
| What is a woman’s surest guardian angel? Indifference. | 34 |
| What is joy? A sunbeam between two clouds. | 35 |
| Why are we so blind? That which we improve, we have, that which we hoard is not for ourselves. | 36 |
| Women are far more impulsive than men; this is because they are more influenced by the heart than the head. | 37 |
| Women do not fancy timid men. | 38 |
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