"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"I have just returned from a visit to some friends, where I was very well entertained, and had a good deal of dancing."

"I am quite ashamed of my own stupidity."

"I have been at great pains to avoid the sort of female who is always in love with a man, and always talking of him, and always wishing to marry him."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."