I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
People argue themselves out of their pleasures
A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.
Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.
To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.
If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.