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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

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

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that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

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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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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

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I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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My heart is, and always will be, yours.

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Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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Time did not compose her.

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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

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To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

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