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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

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for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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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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I trust that absolutes have gradations.

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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

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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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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." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

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My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

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