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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

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Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

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I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

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What strange creatures brothers are!

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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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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

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I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

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I was quiet but I was not blind.

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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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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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

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Angry people are not always wise.

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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

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It's such a happiness when good people get together.

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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

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