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I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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You have delighted us long enough.

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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

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Our scars make us know that our past was for real

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Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

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The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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

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Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

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Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could 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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I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

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Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

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I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.

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