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He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.

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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

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You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

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She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

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Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

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How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

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I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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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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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

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What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

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