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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

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Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

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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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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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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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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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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

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Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

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How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

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

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

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I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

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