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How can I dispose of myself with it?

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Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

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We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

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Every savage can dance.

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We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

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How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

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

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Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

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There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

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He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.

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

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