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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

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Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

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

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

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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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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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

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It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

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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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None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

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But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

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