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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

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Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

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I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

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She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

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I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

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Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

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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.

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

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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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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

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We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

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