And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them..

This is an evening of wonders, indeed!.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common..

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone..

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other..

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness..

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love..

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love..

Time will explain..

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable..

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you..

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret..

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how..

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever..

Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend..

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us..

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best….

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life..