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The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

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Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

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I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

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I will only add, God bless you.

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I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

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If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

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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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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

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My heart is, and always will be, yours.

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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

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I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

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She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

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Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

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There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

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A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

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