“I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.”
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“Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.”
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
“We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.”
“Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.”
“How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?”
“The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.”
“Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.”
“I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.”
“He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.”
“You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.”
“Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.”
“People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.”
“The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.”
“What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.”
“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.”
“I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.”
“I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me”
“When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.”