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May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

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You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

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It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

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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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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

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The less said the better.

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... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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