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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

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My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

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I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

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

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I was quiet but I was not blind.

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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

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Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

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I have no talent for certainty.

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I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

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Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

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How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

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The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

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I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

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Beware how you give your heart.

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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

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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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