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She is loveliness itself.

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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

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The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

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My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

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In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

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If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

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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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I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

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Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

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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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Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

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Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

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Faultless in spite of all her faults.

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