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An annuity is a very serious business.

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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

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She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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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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Faultless in spite of all her faults.

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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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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

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He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

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She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

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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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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

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From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

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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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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

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