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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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Is not poetry the food of love?

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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

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Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

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Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

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Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

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If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

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A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

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Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

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It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

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One word from you shall silence me forever.

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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

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