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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

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Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.

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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

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

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I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

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She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

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Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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There are secrets in all families.

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I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

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I walk: I prefer walking.

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At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

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