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Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

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He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

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... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

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Everything nourishes what is strong already

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Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

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