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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

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But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

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It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

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Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

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I was quiet but I was not blind.

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It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

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If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

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

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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

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I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.

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She is loveliness itself.

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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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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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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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