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I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

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Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

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I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

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We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

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Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

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To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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

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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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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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It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

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May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

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It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

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