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By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.

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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

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

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Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.

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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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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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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

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What are men to rocks and mountains?

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You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

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Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

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