Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Time will explain.

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.