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But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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

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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

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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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I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.

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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

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A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

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Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

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It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

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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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... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

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