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It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

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It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

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Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

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To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

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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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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

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And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

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I have read your book, and I disapprove.

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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

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I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

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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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One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

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Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

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There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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Our scars make us know that our past was for real

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But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

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