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When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

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I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

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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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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

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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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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

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

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A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

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Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

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Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

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She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

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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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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

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