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

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

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The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

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No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

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I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

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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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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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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

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The sooner every party breaks up the better.

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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

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it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

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I have read your book, and I disapprove.

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An annuity is a very serious business.

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the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

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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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