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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

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Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

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When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

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Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

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I walk: I prefer walking.

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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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I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

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I trust that absolutes have gradations.

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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

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people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

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One can never have too large a party.

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With a book he was regardless of time.

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He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

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How can I dispose of myself with it?

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Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

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