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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

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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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the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

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Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

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My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

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How can you contrive to write so even?

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I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

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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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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

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