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“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... 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.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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