To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.
people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
Life is too short for a long story