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I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

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Faultless in spite of all her faults.

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Almost anything is possible with time

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She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

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I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

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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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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

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A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

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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 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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Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

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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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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

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