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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

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I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

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She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

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I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

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When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

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To love is to burn, to be on fire.

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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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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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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

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None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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You have delighted us long enough.

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