Our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for.
("Northanger Abbey")
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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
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It is only by seeing women in their own homes, among their own set, just as they always are, that you can form any just judgment. Short of that, it is all guess and luck-and will generally be ill-luck. How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!
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