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If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

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The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

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Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

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Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

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Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

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I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.

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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

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The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

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but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

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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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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

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there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

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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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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

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