Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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• Despondency is not a state of humility. On the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride; nothing is worse. Whether we stumble, or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.
• The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich
• A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
• There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.