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Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

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He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

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None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

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If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

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