I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

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.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.