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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

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At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

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I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

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Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

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