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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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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

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Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

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Each found her greatest safety in silence.

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

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Time did not compose her.

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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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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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

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

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Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

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I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

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