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Youth is too inexperienced to balance such nice considerations;

parents do not often think of them, or think of them too late.

They are at a distance and may probably be averted; change of

place, a new state of life, the interests of a home may be the

cure of them. So persons vainly reason when their minds are

already made up and their fortunes irrevocably linked together.

Nor is there any ground for supposing that marriages are to any

great extent influenced by reflections of this sort, which seem

unable to make any head against the irresistible impulse of

individual attachment.