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I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

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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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I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

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I was quiet but I was not blind.

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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

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... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

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Evil to some is always good to others

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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

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I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

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There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

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I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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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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