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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

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I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

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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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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

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The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'

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Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

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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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I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

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Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

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Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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