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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

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Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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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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If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

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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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My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

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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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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.

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I trust that absolutes have gradations.

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I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

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The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'

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