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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

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I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

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She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

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Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

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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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the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

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Time will explain.

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

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How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

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

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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

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