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I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

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I have read your book, and I disapprove.

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it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

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My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

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Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

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A Woman never looks better than on horseback

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Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

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When money is once parted with, it can never return.

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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

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