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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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One word from you shall silence me forever.

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I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

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I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

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

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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

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It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

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My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

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Arguments are too much like disputes.

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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

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