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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

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I trust that absolutes have gradations.

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We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

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I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

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

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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

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She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

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