"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
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"Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.“
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