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I walk: I prefer walking.

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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

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To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

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Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

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There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

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Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

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Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

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I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

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Till this moment I never knew myself.

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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

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Angry people are not always wise.

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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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