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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

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How can I dispose of myself with it?

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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

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Each found her greatest safety in silence.

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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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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

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for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

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It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

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I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

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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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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

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I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

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