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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

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There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

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I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

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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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It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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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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From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

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The less said the better.

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Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

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