Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

There's no doctor like meat and drink.

I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.