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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

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The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

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She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

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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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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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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

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We are all fools in love.

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And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

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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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that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

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Faultless in spite of all her faults.

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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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