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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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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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She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

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Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

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I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

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Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

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To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

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