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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

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Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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I must have my share in the conversation.

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... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

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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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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

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Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

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The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

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