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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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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

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He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

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Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

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You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

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Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

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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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Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

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Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.

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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

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I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

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