With all due respect to such of the present company as chance to be married, my dear Mrs.Grant, there is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.

Look where I will, I see that it _is_ so; and I feel that it _must_ be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves." "Ah! You have been in a bad school for matrimony, in Hill Street." "My poor aunt had certainly little cause to love the state; but, however, speaking from my own observation, it is a manoeuvring business.
I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connexion, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse.

What is this but a take in ?" "My dear child, there must be a little imagination here.

I beg your pardon, but I cannot quite believe you.

Depend upon it, you see but half.