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May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

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Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

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Evil to some is always good to others

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but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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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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I am all astonishment.

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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

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Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

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She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

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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 power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

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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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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

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If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

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