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Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

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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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The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

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

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She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

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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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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

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that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

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I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

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What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”

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I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

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What are men to rocks and mountains?

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

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I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-" "Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you." "And I you.

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