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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

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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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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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I am excessively diverted.

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

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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

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And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

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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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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

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“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

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