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There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

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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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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

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A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

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

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I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

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I am all astonishment.

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

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I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

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I have no talent for certainty.

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