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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

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You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

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She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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one day in the country is exactly like another.

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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

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You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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

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The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'

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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

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How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

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