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

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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

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We do not suffer by accident.

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I do not cough for my own amusement.

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I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

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The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

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I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

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How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

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At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

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I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.

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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

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