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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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Faultless in spite of all her faults.

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Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

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for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

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Obstinate, headstrong girl!

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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

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Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

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Angry people are not always wise.

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