There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.