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She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.

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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

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Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

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Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.

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there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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Almost anything is possible with time

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

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I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

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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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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

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I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

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I should not mind anything at all.

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

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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

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