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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

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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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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

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Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

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I was quiet but I was not blind.

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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

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I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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

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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

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