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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

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Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

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Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

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What are men to rocks and mountains?

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He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

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How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

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I can always live by my pen.

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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

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Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

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it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

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