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Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

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“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'

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I do not cough for my own amusement.

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Time, time will heal the wound.

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

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We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

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I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

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Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

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There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

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My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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Know your own happiness.

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... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

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