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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

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I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

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Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

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A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

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I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

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It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

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... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

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They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

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Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

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