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I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

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Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

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When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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With a book he was regardless of time.

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Time did not compose her.

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It's such a happiness when good people get together.

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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

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How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

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When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

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But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

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The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

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She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.

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The less said the better.

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Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

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