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Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

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Time, time will heal the wound.

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I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

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There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

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Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

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Arguments are too much like disputes.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

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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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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

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