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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

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If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

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But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

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Success supposes endeavour.

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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

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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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She attracted him more than he liked.

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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

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You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

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