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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

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Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

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I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

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Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

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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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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

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About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.

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None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

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