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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

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She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

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but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

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And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

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

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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

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If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

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it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

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Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

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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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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

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