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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

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

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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

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I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

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We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

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Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

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Every savage can dance.

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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

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We neither of us perform to strangers.

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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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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

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