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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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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

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Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

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Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

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Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

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You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

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Know your own happiness.

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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

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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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