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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

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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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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

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I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

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Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

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It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

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Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

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A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

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