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None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

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It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

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people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

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Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

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Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

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Everything nourishes what is strong already

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

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