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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

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We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

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We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

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She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

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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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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

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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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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

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Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

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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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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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When I fall in love, it will be forever.

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

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