Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
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It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?