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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

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

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There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

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It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

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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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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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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

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It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

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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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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

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