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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

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one day in the country is exactly like another.

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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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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

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About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

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You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

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I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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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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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

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