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Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

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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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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

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It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

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We are all fools in love.

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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

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I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

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What strange creatures brothers are!

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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

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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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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

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You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

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The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

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