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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

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What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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Obstinate, headstrong girl!

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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

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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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I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

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A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

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By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.

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But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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She is loveliness itself.

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a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

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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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Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

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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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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

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Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

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I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

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