Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way
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Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. ''And what are you reading, Miss -- -'' ''Oh it is only a novel'' replies the young lady while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. ''It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda '' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen
Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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