Posts tagged “sense and sensibility”

  1. Devonshire is known for its rich pastures, downs, pleasant woods, and total lack of beaux.

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  2. Father is gone, Fanny
    he died this morning
    not on the good couch?
    the what?
    the good couch
    you know how i feel about relations dying on the good couch
    that's for guests only

    no no, my love
    he died in bed
    whose bed?
    his bed
    oh
    that's all right then

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  3. When your partner worries about the declining health of his beloved parents whom you grudgingly help support: "If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them." When criticized for underpaying interns: "Five hundred a year! I am sure I cannot imagine how they will spend half of it; and as to your giving them more, it is quite absurd to think of it." When disapproving of your…

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