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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

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It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

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I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.

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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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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

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If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

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that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

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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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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

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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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The less said the better.

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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

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She is loveliness itself.

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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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Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

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The sooner every party breaks up the better.

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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

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