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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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She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

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A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

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I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

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

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To love is to burn, to be on fire.

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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

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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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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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