Choose one quotation/saying/epigram from the list provided.

Choose one quotation/saying/epigram from the list provided. Indicate how that particular expression ridicules, comments on, or somehow reveals something about nineteenth-century English society. Explain how the saying works. Be sure to incorporate your quotation within your one-page response. Begin with your thesis statement. No Works Cited page necessary, but do indicate where the expression is located (ex: Act 1,2, or 3) Please use the MLA Template GoogleDoc.

1 After we had all been resigned to his loss, his sudden return seems to me parculiarly distressing.
2. All women become like their mothers that is their tragedy. No man does.That’s his.
3. The amount of women who flirt with their own husbands is scandalous. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
4. But pray …. don’t stop. I delight in taking down dictation. I have reached ‘absolute perfection’. You can go on. I am ready for more.
5. By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
6. An engagement is hardly a serious one that has not been broken off at least once.
7. Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old- fashioned
respect for the young is fast dying out.
8. Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
9. Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don’t think it right.
10. The good end happily, the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
11. He seems to have great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice.
12. Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
13. His voice alone inspires one with absolute credulity.
14. How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.