"I couldn't be happy with a man whose taste didn't in every point coincide with my own/ He must enter into all my fillings; the same books, the same music must charm us both".
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"Mama, the more i know of the world, the more i am convinced that i shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
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"Aye, it is a fine thing to be young and handsome. Well! I was young once, but I never was very handsome - worse luck for me/ Howewer, I got a very good husband, and I don't know what the greatest beauty can do more".
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"Well, it is the oddest thing to me, that man should use such a pretty girl so ill! But when there is plenty of money on one side, and next to none on yhe other, Lord bless you!they care no more about such things".