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It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

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She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

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I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

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One can never have too large a party.

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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

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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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The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

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