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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

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... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, 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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Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

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My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

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it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

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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 think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

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She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

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My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

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Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

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

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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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One can never have too large a party.

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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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