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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

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I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

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Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

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

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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

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She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

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I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

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My heart is, and always will be, yours.

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A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

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How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

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