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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

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Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

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It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

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Time did not compose her.

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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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I should not mind anything at all.

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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

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If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

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And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

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I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

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She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

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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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There are secrets in all families.

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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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