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Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

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There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

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Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

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I have no talent for certainty.

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

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Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

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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 of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

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She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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Everything nourishes what is strong already

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If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

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